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in the NEWS OPEN HOUSE BRINGS GUESTS TO SKAGIT REGIONAL CLINICS - RIVERBEND Nearly 100 members of area Chambers of Commerce enjoyed an after-hours social at SKAGIT REGIONAL CLINICS - RIVERBEND in June. Members of the Anacortes, Burlington, Concrete, La Conner, Mount Vernon and Sedro-Woolley
chambers enjoyed refreshments, tours and a game of Operation. BELOW: Members of area Chambers of Commerce enjoy sunshine and refreshments in June at Skagit Regional Clinics – Riverbend.
ABOVE: The Relay for Life took on a pirate theme in June.
RELAY FOR LIFE EVENT HONORS SURVIVORS Skagit Regional Health joined IN THE ANNUAL RELAY FOR LIFE – Skagit County in Burlington
June 13. A total of 56 teams and 364 participants jointed in the event, which raised more than $80,000 for the American Cancer Society’s fight against cancer.
NURSES JOIN EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN NEPAL Three Skagit Regional Health nurses were part of the international wave of emergency response to the devastating earthquakes in Nepal last Spring. Within hours of the first 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal, Skagit Regional Health Registered Nurse MIRIAM WITT answered the call to go for a two-week stint with an International Medical Assistance Team. She met up with fellow nurse KRISTA BROWN, RN on a response team serving Kathmandu
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and the surrounding countryside. Both returned to the U.S. before the second earthquake struck Nepal. Miriam returned again, this time with fellow nurse RACHEL FOWLER, RN, to provide medical assistance, supplies, food and shelter to the Nepali people. On her Facebook page Miriam wrote: “Nepal is a country of needs. I am right where I need to be. Doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.”
BELOW: Skagit Regional Health Nurse Miriam Witt, RN, right, helps deliver food to a remote village after the earthquake in Nepal.