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DNR sidesteps Navy proposal Letter addresses land in electromagnetic training BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The state Department of Natural Resources says it isn’t interested in allowing its land to be used for the Navy’s proposed electronic warfare training. “DNR land has been publicly discussed as a location for the Navy’s proposed electromagnetic warfare training on the Olympic Peninsula,” said Peter Goldmark, state commissioner of public lands, in a brief, one-page letter to Rear Adm. Jeffrey Ruth, com-
mander of Navy Region Northwest, that was delivered electronically Friday. “Though we have not received a formal land use or lease application for this project, we feel that we are adequately informed to decide that we would not be interested in participating in this training exercise.” No reasons for the decision were given in Goldmark’s letter. The Navy has not applied for a permit to use the three DNR sites, but officials had planned to do so soon, said Liane Nakahara, a
Navy public affairs officer. “With the recent information pertaining to potential DNR concerns with issuing this permit, the Navy is reevaluating its options in this matter,” she said.
Other locations In addition to the three forested DNR sites and roads in the west end of Jefferson County, the Navy wants to use 12 other locations in Olympic National Forest in western Clallam, Jefferson and Grays Harbor counties. The Forest Service is expected to rule on a permit for those sites later this year. The Navy wants to use the sites beginning this September. TURN
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The EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft.
Tackling a lack of health care Free clinics in struggle to meet need for access BY DIANE URBANI
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While measles and flu make the headlines, a small army of doctors and nurses contends with another public health ailment. Its symptoms: high insurance deductibles and premiums; copays that add up; doctors who don’t take Medicaid. The malady is lack of access to basic health care. One solution lies in a kind of parallel medical sector: the free clinics on the North Olympic Peninsula, three of which belong to the Washington Health Access Alliance, the state organization of free and charitable clinics. On any given week at the Dungeness Valley Health & Well-
ness Clinic in Sequim, at JC MASH — Jefferson County Medical Advocacy Service Headquarters — in Port Townsend and at VIMO, or Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics in Port Angeles, scores of patients receive care and advice. In these offices, there are paid staff, but many more unpaid providers who share the belief that health care is a right, not a consumer product.
Sequim clinic Take Dr. Kip Tulin, one of 11 volunteer physicians and nurse practitioners at the Sequim clinic. He’s retired from a long career at Kaiser Permanente in Bakersfield, Calif., and is now the clinic’s volunteer medical director. Tulin and his team see eight to 10 people come in on any given Monday or Thursday evening, when walk-in urgent care clinics are held.
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Rose Gibbs is clinic director of the Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic while Dr. Kip Tulin is the volunteer medical director. The clinic is part of an effort on the North Olympic Peninsula to deal with a lack of access to basic TURN TO CLINICS/A8 health care suffered by some area residents.
Jefferson Healthcare: Services adequate Hospital addresses ACLU’s letter us to not provide termination services,” Dr. Joseph Mattern, the hospital’s chief medical officer, PORT TOWNSEND — Jeffersaid last week. son Healthcare’s practice of referring women elsewhere for abor- Not performed on-site tion services adequately serves The hospital does not perform those seeking such services, said the hospital’s chief medical officer. abortions on-site because of prac“There is nothing in our ticality, not policy, according to bylaws, there is no directive, for staff members. BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
“The reason we don’t is decided through medical staff and the willingness or interest on the part of that staff to provide that service and organizational support,” Mattern said. “If we are going to do it, we want to do it well.” The Seattle office of the American Civil Liberties Union has said it believes a public hospital that provides maternity care but not abortion services is in violation of state law.
The ACLU accused the East Jefferson County hospital of being out of compliance with state law in its provision of abortion services in a Feb. 18 letter addressed to the hospital board and CEO Mike Glenn.
ACLU on services “If a public hospital provides a wide range of maternity services, which Jefferson Healthcare does, it needs to provide a full range of termination services,” said Leah Rutman, ACLU’s policy counsel,
who wrote the letter. The letter asks that the hospital change its policies and practices “to fulfill its obligations under the Reproduc- Mattern tive Privacy Act.” TURN
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