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Volume 83 No. 50
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Medical Management company to evaluate Bogachiel and Clallam Bay clinics
FORKS
Color-up-Forks
For Esther Nguyen’s senior project she decided she wanted to have a Color Run. The Color Run, also known as the Happiest 5K on the Planet, was founded by Utah native and event producer Travis Snyder in March 2011, in an effort to encourage professionals and novices to run together for fun and to promote healthiness and happiness. Its first event took place in March 2011 in Phoenix, Ariz., with 6,000 participants. Since that first run in Utah these runs have taken place all over the world. Nguyen wanted to have the first one in Forks. She named it Color-up-Forks. First she had to raise the money to buy the official colors, which are cornstarch based and non-toxic. She held a bake sale and raised $520 and ordered 20-plus pounds of color. On Aug. 15 at 9 a.m. her color run got under way. About 70 participants ran a crazy route around town and at each of the four stations on the route they got doused with a different color. Each participant paid an entry fee and got a T-shirt, run bib, snacks and water. The event was open to all ages. She would like to thank everyone that participated and special thanks to sponsors Subway, Forks Outfitters, Forks Avenue Real Estate and Lissy Andros at the Forks Chamber of Commerce. Kathy Hjelmeseth and Str8 Jacket T’s provided the T-shirts for the event. She also would like to thank her mentor Avery Ironhill. The event raised about $1,500 and all proceeds will go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The idea of the Color Run is to just have fun and to get moving. It appears to have been a success.
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At right, Esther Nguyen and her mentor Avery Ironhill. Photos Kristy Smith
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A group photo after the event, everyone is colored up.
ECRWSS - BOXHOLDER
Medical Management, Inc. (MedMan), a medical management company based in Boise, Idaho, has been contracted by Forks Community Hospital to assist with the process of evaluating the current Bogachiel and Clallam Bay medical clinics operations and follow through by implementing recommendations that are approved by the hospital and its governing body. MedMan was founded by Jim Trounson in 1977. His business model was based on his experience with outsourcing management companies that were improving the efficiency of hospitals by centralizing and computerizing many of their management functions. Trounson quickly saw how these techniques could be applied to the growing sector of outpatient medicine. Thus, MedMan came into being as the nation’s first physician practice management company. The MedMan focus is on developing long-term relationships with Pacific Northwest clients, for the most part in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. The clients range from small to large physician-owned and hospital-owned groups that can be primary care, specialty or a combination of both, similar to the current provider staffing at the Bogachiel and Clallam Bay clinics. MedMan has had an on-going discussion with the leadership at