Oregon’s Novel ¡Salud! Healthcare Program

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How Oregon’s Novel ¡Salud! Services program Provides Accessible Healthcare

by L.M. Archer

Providing accessible healthcare to the Willamette Valley’s migrant vine tenders – Last year, collectively, ¡Salud! raised over $1.3 million.

The Summertime ¡Salud! The E-Auction Returns July 16 – 18 – register and preview the auction lots. 

Hillsboro, Ore. – For over thirty years, Oregon’s novel ¡Salud! Services program provides attainable, affordable healthcare to vine tenders.

Established in 1992, ¡Salud! Services is a clinical department of Hillsboro Medical Center, an OHSU Health partner, and a project of the Hillsboro Medical Center Foundation.

Funds derive from the annual November ¡Salud! The Oregon Pinot Noir auction, the summertime July e-auction, and other private donations.  Last year, collectively, ¡Salud! raised over $1.3 million.

“We work for a hospital, but we’re really entrenched in the wine industry too,” says Maria McCandless, foundation director for Hillsboro Medical Center Foundation, who solicits donations for the auctions. “So it’s really hard to explain to people what our job is – the culmination of a year-long process. We enjoy seeing the success at the auction.”

Innovation

Innovation sets ¡Salud! Services apart from other wine region healthcare programs. “We have our own mobile medical units (number two soon to be delivered), launched mobile mental health services by bilingual clinical psychologists, and established electronic medical records, which allows us, and other providers, to see services provided and follow up plans,” says Leda Garside, clinical nurse manager for ¡Salud! Services.

The mobile units bring care directly to where migrants work – in the vineyards. Services include health, prenatal, dental, vision, and mental healthcare.

They also perform lipid and diabetes screening panels, blood pressures monitoring, and administer tetanus, flu, and COVID-19 vaccines.

Additionally, the staff coordinates office, home, and hospital appointments and visits, as well as case management.

In 2023, ¡Salud! treated 2,094 registered patients, conducted 6,300 patient interactions, and traveled 6,763 miles throughout nine counties. READ MORE HERE.

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