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Department of Human Services
About Us
Vision
The Enterprise assists communities in addressing the challenges and opportunities of assuring a healthy rural Oregon.
 
 
Mission Statement
The Enterprise promotes and protects the health of all people living in rural Oregon.
 
 
Goals
  • Protect and promote the availability and access to comprehensive health services in rural Oregon.
  • Promote public health excellence in rural Oregon, including ensuring regional availability of a comprehensive range of public health services.
  • Promote the integration of public health and medical care by utilizing local physicians, nurses, public health professionals, mental health professionals, hospitals, and other stakeholders as community health resources.
 
 
Objectives
  • Maintaining and strengthening health systems (public health, medical care, mental health, etc.) within and between rural communities, using a variety of strategies including mutual aid agreements, capitol development, pooling resources, infrastructure development and adaptation, etc.
  • Adapting "best practices" in order to better support and integrate public health, medical care (including mental health/behavioral health), and other community-based organizations.
  • Educating providers and larger communities on what is public health.
  • Promoting and assisting communities with health care assessments, strategic planning, and community development.
  • Developing models for integration of public health, prevention, primary care, mental health, hospitals, and other community organizations in rural areas.
  • Integrating public health preparedness efforts into healthy community building efforts.
Organization
Annual Performance Measures

Organization

 
Page updated: September 22, 2007

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