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

Programs offered at Center

• Primary Care

• Pediatrics

• Internal Medicine

• Reproductive Health

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

Benton Community Health Center

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.

Benton Community Health Center

Key Partnerships

Benton County Health Department

Oregon State University

College of Pharmacy

Stacy Ramirez – Pharm.D.Clinical Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Pharmacy PracticeOregon 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 Benton Community Health Center to provide clinical pharmacy services with a focus on chronic pain management and diabetes

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.

Benton Community Health Center

Oregon State UniversityCollege of Pharmacy

Win – Win – Win Situation

Benton Community Health Center

• 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.