WHAT’S NEW AT CHCW?

CHCW is proud to introduce our new Senior & Residential Care Program. SRCare providers specialize in elder and nursing facility care. They do not have other competing demands. The SRCare team provides coverage for all enrolled patients all the time. View all the...

Back-to-School: Yakima Pediatric Associates Announces Vaccine Awareness Million worth of vaccines given out locally through clinic in 2012   YAKIMA, WA – Each year in August, National Immunization Awareness Month provides an opportunity to highlight the need for...

New Family Practice Physician Joins CHCW’s Ellensburg Clinic Dr. Micahlyn Powers, MD, will start seeing and treating patients at the clinic next week   YAKIMA, WA – Community Health of Central Washington – Ellensburg (CHCW-E) is pleased to announce that it has...

Community Health of Central WA Names New Quality Director Leslie Myrick has been promoted to the new position of Director of Quality for the non-profit healthcare center YAKIMA, WA – Community Health of Central Washington (CHCW) is pleased to announce that it has...

  Community Health of Central Washington was recently approved to host dental students as part of its university rotations at the health center’s Ellensburg dental clinic. Dental students, like medical students, go through rotations to experience different...

YAKIMA — Two local medical residency programs have received funding under the Affordable Care Act to train more physicians. Community Health of Central Washington received $375,000 and Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic received $150,000, the Health and Human Services...

Local Medical Residency Program Celebrates 20th Anniversary Central WA Family Medicine Residency celebrates 20 years of service to the community   YAKIMA, WA – Central Washington Family Medicine Residency (CWFM-R), a not-for-profit healthcare physician residency...

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...

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...

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...

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 on a...