Valley medical community gets ready for rush of new patients

Valley medical community gets ready for rush of new patients

By its very nature, the Affordable Care Act will increase demand for doctors. An estimated 30,000 Yakima Valley residents who don’t have insurance will receive coverage once the act fully goes into effect, and it’s safe to assume that many will take advantage of newly...
Valley medical community gets ready for rush of new patients

New residency program to help with doctor shortage

With projections for a continued primary care shortage — especially with the upcoming expansion of patients with new access to health care — established providers are growing more worried about who’s going to train new primary care doctors. Residency programs that...
Valley medical community gets ready for rush of new patients

UW Students Spend Spring Break In Yakima

By Eugene Buenaventura. Published Thursday, March 28th, 2013 For the past week, Alexa Celerian and a group of students from the University of Washington have spent their spring break at the Community Health of Central Washington, shadowing doctors. Celerian is a...
Valley medical community gets ready for rush of new patients

Diagnosis for Yakima County: Failing health

Featured in the: yakimaherald.com Poverty, poor choices and not enough doctors. That sums up why Yakima County struggles so much to improve its health, said Dr. Mike Maples, responding to Wednesday’s release of a national report that gave the county low grades...
Valley medical community gets ready for rush of new patients

UW Students Spend Spring Break In Yakima

By Eugene Buenaventura. Published Thursday, March 28th, 2013 KAPP TV – view article For the past week, Alexa Celerian and a group of students from the University of Washington have spent their spring break at the Community Health of Central Washington, shadowing...
Valley medical community gets ready for rush of new patients

Community Health of Central WA Names New Executives

Director of IT and Director of Patient Accounts Announced at CHCW Featured in the: yakimaherald.com YAKIMA, WA – Community Health of Central Washington (CHCW) is pleased to announce Troy Fleenor as its Director of IT and Lana Barnes as its Director of Patient...