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A Look at How COVID-19 Vaccines Get Approved

Over 500 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States since January of 2021 and have been credited with saving millions of lives. However, many across the country are still hesitant to get the vaccine or decline it entirely. If you are still trying to decide whether or not to…

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Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic

In March of 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. None of us could have predicted what this would mean for our communities, our businesses, or our own families. Over the last two years, we have lost nearly one million Americans. We’ve also lost our naivety. The country has seen its fault…

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A Patient Story: Keri

“My husband lost his job and we lost our health insurance. I was talking to a friend about symptoms I’d been having for over a year and how none of the doctors I’d seen prior to losing our insurance believed something was wrong with me. She suggested I go to Neighborhood Health Center (NHC) because…

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#GiveHealth: Bringing Quality Care to the Community

COVID-19 Vaccines Giving the gift of health to migrant and seasonal farmworkers Maribel Renteria is Clinic Manager at NHC’s Canby clinic where she oversees day-to-day operations. Many of the patients her team sees are uninsured or on Oregon Health Plan (OHP); a portion of these patients are migrant farmworkers – a community that has been disproportionately…

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