Wellness Inspiration
Can you Hear Me Now?
By Michelle Jenck, YOW Coordinator If it seems like you have been hearing a lot about diabetes and pre-diabetes lately, ...
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes (and other chronic disease) Without Drugs
By Dr. Hans Diehl The diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes has often been perceived as a death sentence because of its impact on...
Tillamook County Community Health Centers – Working Together to Reduce Diabetes Risk
By Autumn Bruce, BSN, RN and Operations Manager As a key partner of the Year of Wellness (YOW), Tillamook County Communi...
Helping patients successfully manage type 2 diabetes: Rinehart Clinic’s Diabetes Risk Reduction Program
By Leigh Ann Hoffhines, Communications Manager, Rinehart Clinic Rinehart Clinic applauds Tillamook County Year of Wellne...
Local Doctor’s Journey with Type 2 Diabetes Provides Invaluable Insight
Everyone has heard the clichés, “Doctors are the worst patients,” or “Doctors don’t take their own advice.” ...
Year of Wellness 2017 – In Review, Looking toward YOW 2018
By the YOW Leadership Team As the second “Year of Wellness” draws to a close, we extend our gratitude to the communi...
#Metoo, what about you?
(NOTE: This is a timely article with the recent naming of “The Silence Breakers” of the #MeToo movement selected a...
Collaborative Initiative Continues as Years of Wellness Task Force Selects Focus for 2018
By YOW Staff You’ve come a long way baby! This captures the progress made by Tillamook County’s Year of Wellness (...
Year of Wellness Readies for Year #3 with Focus on Diabetes
By Bill Baertlein, Tillamook County Commissioner When the Tillamook County Board of Commissioners proclaimed 2016 as the...
Tillamook County Properties, Buildings and Parks Smoke/Tobacco-Free Starting Jan. 1, 2018
Ordinance 82 was approved by voters November 7th and bans the use of tobacco products on all County-owned properties, wi...
Strategies That Work: Quitting Smoking/Tobacco
by DeAnna Pearl, Prevention Specialist, SOS Tillamook Did you know . . . On average, it takes 7 attempts to quit smok...
Tobacco – the Good, the Bad, and the Profit Motive
By Clark Miller, LCSW National indicators seem to show significant reductions in tobacco use (cigarette smoking) over pa...