Bend Sunrise Lions presents Honor Roll Award to Volunteers in Medicine
Also, St. Charles donates 7 in-room workstations to clinic
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Bend Sunrise Lions Club has presented its Honor Roll Award to Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades, on behalf of the Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation.
The Foundation Honor Roll Award highlights outstanding contributions of an individual, group or company in support of the Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation (OLSHF) to provide eye assistance, hearing assistance and eye medical assistance (such as cataract removal) to members of the community who do not qualify for insurance coverage and/or fall under low income categories.
Russell Chase, Bend/Sunrise Lions Club Sight and Hearing chair, says, “Volunteers in Medicine has been a very supportive group when it comes to assisting these individuals by providing eye examinations and working with the Lions Eye Assistance Program (LEAP) lab to get quality eyewear for their clients.
"The Bend/Sunrise Lions Club has worked with VIM for over 12 years, which has allowed us as well as other Lions Clubs in Central Oregon to serve many VIM clients.
"We’ve had a continuous relationship with VIM, working to assist them monetarily and with various other contributions, and they in turn have helped us meet our ongoing goal of 'We Serve' and helped us keep our commitment to Helen Keller by being Knights for the Blind. It is due to this great relationship that VIM was chosen for this award,” Chase concluded.
In other clinic news this week, in January, Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades became an operational Epic Community Connect partner of St. Charles Health System.
Last Thursday the SCHS donated seven in-room workstations and, in collaboration with GreenLoop IT Solutions, successfully configured VIM workstations and patient space to an in-room computing model.
These workstations will allow for more direct patient care by enabling nurses and providers to chart in the room, order prescriptions in real time and even show patients imaging results during their appointment.
These new computers are going to make patient care so much more efficient and increase our capacity to see more patients in the clinic, officials said.
