Klamath Open Door
Family Practice
2074 S 6th St
Klamath Falls, OR
(541) 851-8110
Chiloquin Open Door
Family Practice
103 Wasco Ave.
Chiloquin, OR
(541) 783-2292
May is Physical Fitness and Sports Month
Spring into Fitness and Fun in May 
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month! And what better month to start an activity program? The flowers are in bloom, the weather is getting warmer, the trees and grass are green — everything is new and growing! This is the perfect time to start afresh by adding exercise to your daily routine.
According to the American College of Sports Medicine, you should aim to be active at a moderate level of intensity for 30 minutes on most (if not all) days. If 30 minutes every day seem like a lot, start with what you can do and work up. Keep a log of your progress to help motivate you while doing the physical activities you enjoy regularly.
Be sure to make your exercise focus health, not weight. Benefits of exercise include reduced risk of such chronic diseases as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer; in addition to weight control and reduced stress. So take a break from studying, and get out and move into spring!
Can You Help?
Klamath Health Partnership has been working hard to provide needed services to the entire community, regardless of financial status, for several years. We have gone from a tiny clinic to a larger one, trying to keep up with the needs of Basin residents. It’s time for us to grow again, and we would like your support.
We are applying for a Capital Development Grant, which would allow us to expand and renovate the current Klamath Falls clinic. Our plan for the grant is to increase availability of not only the medical and dental services we already offer, but to add services as well.
In order to back up our application for this grant, it is important that we can show support from the community. It couldn’t be simpler – all we’re asking is that you send an email to us at feedback@kodfp.org telling us that you’re interested in writing a letter of support. Next week, we will mail out information to those interested, telling you a little more about the project and the grant and explaining exactly what we need from you. We promise it will be as quick and painless as possible, and increase our chances of serving the community even better than before.
We are very excited about this opportunity and look forward to continuing our work to improve our services and access to them. Keep coming back for more updates and information!
Mobilization Day!
As a community health center, our mission to serve our community is very important to us. Even as we continually work to provide better quality care and service to the whole Klamath Basin and beyond, our ability to do so is threatened by cuts to the Health Centers federal program.
Today is Mobilization Day. Today, we are asking everyone to join us in calling Congress and the White House to let them know just how important the Health Centers program is to our community and clinic. The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) has spearheaded this campaign. Here is what they, and we, are asking of you:
1) Call Your Members of Congress: Use the toll free NACHC Advocacy Hotline at 1-866-456-3949 and tell Your Representative AND BOTH Senators: “Do not undermine the successful Health Centers program as you negotiate Medicaid changes and cuts to the federal budget. The health and lives of our families and our neighbors should not be negotiated away. I am counting on your support for my Health Center.”
a. You only need to call the Advocacy Hotline ONE TIME – stay on the line at the end of each conversation to be automatically connected to your next policymaker.
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2) Call the White House Comment Line at 1-202-456-1111 and leave a message for the President saying: “Do not undermine the successful Health Centers program as you negotiate Medicaid changes and cuts to the federal budget. The health and lives of our families and our neighbors should not be negotiated away. I am counting on your support for my Health Center.”
a. When you call the White House Comment Line it may take a few moments to be connected to a LIVE OPERATOR, but you WILL be connected and be able to leave a message with a LIVE person. Make sure to call the White House BEFORE the Comment Line CLOSES at 5:00pm EST.
This is an important campaign, and it has the potential to directly affect many of us even locally. These funds help us support our community. We hope you will support us by calling in today. Thank you.
Campaign for America’s Health Centers
Community Health Centers are central in the ongoing debate over federal spending. As a community facing cuts to programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, we as a clinic want to point out how critical these programs are to allow us to provide care for everyone. Part of our mission is to eliminate barriers to health – including financial barriers – and financial assistance from the federal government is one of the things that allows us to eliminate those barriers.
Klamath Health Partnership provides high quality, cost-effective care to more than 10,000 people in Klamath County every year. Together with health centers around the country, we save the health care system $24 billion a year. Our system works – and we want to keep working for you.
We need your help. If programs like Medicaid and Medicare lose funding, we will lose the majority of our revenue. The loss of funding would undermine our model of care and threaten our ability to provide the community with the high quality care we are determined to offer. We ask you to help us support you as a community by supporting us as a community health center.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we continue to offer more information about the importance of community health centers and what you can do to help us in the Campaign for America’s Health Centers.
Welcome!
We hope you enjoy visiting our new and improved web site. We are always interested in your comments and suggestions, and can be reached via email form on the Contact Us page.
