Benton Community Health Center

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Benton Community Health
Center
Located at 530 NW 27th Street Corvallis, Oregon
(inside the Public Services building)
Medical Staff consists of

• 3 Physicians
• 6 Nurse Practitioners
• 6 Medical Assistants
• 2 Registered Nurses

Population served

• Patients diagnosed with Diabetes 135
• Ethnicity
• 41 Hispanic
• 85 Non-Hispanic
• 18 Not Collected / Unknown
• Race
• 2 Asian
• 1 Black
• 29 Not Collected / Unknown
• 1 Pacific Islander
• 111 White

Programs offered at Center

• Primary Care
• Pediatrics
• Internal Medicine
• Reproductive Health

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Benton Community Health
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Action Goals 1) Develop collaboration between
Benton Community Health Center and Oregon
State University College of Pharmacy to provide
disease management through the use of standing
order protocols. 2) Utilize available
resources within the Benton County Health
Department to better serve our patients.
Examples include self-management classes using
the Stanford Model, program evaluation through
Health Promotion Program. 3) Identify
evidence-based standing orders and protocols to
improve the quality of care and flow of
work. 4) Implement evidence-based standing
orders and protocols to improve the quality of
care and flow of work.
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Key Partnerships

• Stacy Ramirez Pharm.D.
• Clinical Assistant Professor
• Department of Pharmacy Practice
• Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
• Role at the college is
• Advancing community pharmacy by
• developing and studying innovative practice
• models for pharmacists in a community
• setting
• Involving students in all aspects of these
• models
• Teaching in the department of pharmacy
• practice
• As part of bullet 1, I began working with the

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
Benton County Health Department
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• Interest in the collaborative
• Excellent opportunity for 2nd year pharmacy
  students to learn interpersonal skills, empathy,
  challenges inherent in dealing with underserved
  populations, public health topics, chart review
  skills, communication with other healthcare
  providers.
• Each Student is assigned a patient form the
  collaborative.
• Activities students will perform include chart
  reviews, patient interviews, patient skills
  assessments, blood-glucose meter training,
  preparation of appropriate patient education
  materials, SOAP notes, recommendations to
  providers regarding drug therapy, and home visits.

Oregon State University College of Pharmacy
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Benton Community Health
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• Win Win Win Situation

• College of Pharmacy benefits by offering a unique
  learning opportunity for our students
• Community Health Center benefits by gaining 90
  pharmacy students to provide services to our
  collaborative patients
• Clients benefit by receiving additional care
  focused on improving their self-care abilities.