Government

Home visit program where patients are referred by the Indian Health Service medical or pharmacy providers to the environmental or public health office for in-home survey and then results and recommendations are communicated during the visit. Incentive materials and education are provided; also recommendations are placed into patient's charts for providers to review.

A statewide multi-agency consortium that promotes and assists school districts to implement and maintain the EPA Tools for Schools program.

Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Program - home visiting and lead abatement program. Assess homes for asthma triggers.

The Healthy Homes Program provides free Healthy Homes Assessment to families with asthmatic individuals. The services help identify home environmental triggers for asthma, educate customers on cause-effect relationship, provide low-cost intervention materials to facilitate control of triggers, make follow-up home visits to ensure continuing success in controlling triggers, monitor health outcomes, collect extensive data, and evaluate program performance and objective attainments.

CMS federally funded grant program providing asthma education by certified asthma nurse educators to families in both office and home settings. Supplies to reduce home triggers provided through an innovation grant.

The Indian Health Service, Portland Area Division of Environmental Health Services provides comprehensive environmental public health services to the 43 Tribes in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The program works with tribal communities to prevent environmentally-related disease and injury.

Our program support focuses on chronic disease management for the medically underserved and Veterans, primarily those located in urban/inner-city localities. We go where the need exist, without regard to the demographics, the need drives our support and delivery.