All Entries Tagged With: "High Plains Community Health Center"
PMC Board Candidates Discuss Dollars and Sense at Public Forum
While all six PMC board of director candidates recognized the need for some form of expansion at the hospital to accommodate an outpatient rehabilitation facility, most stated their dissatisfaction with a lack of specifics on the proposed renovations and expansion to warrant the $5million bond issue which goes before the voters on May 8. […]
Affordable Community Wellness EXPO Returns!
(Lamar, CO) The region’s most affordable health fair returns with the 2nd Annual Community Wellness Expo on April 19th & 20th. The Community Wellness Expo is sponsored by High Plains Community Health Center, Frontier Bank and the Lamar Parks and Recreation Department. A $30 fasting blood work panel includes: Lipids (cholesterol); A1C (diabetes); CBC (infection […]
The Remember Foundation Begins Local Efforts
Almost any adult has had moments in their lives when they can’t remember where they left their car keys, some cordless house phones have ringers on the base unit that beeps the missing handset so you can find it buried in the sofa cushions, some of us enter a room, temporarily forgetting why we’re […]
8th Annual Fantasy Tree Festival Held at Lamar Elks
The 8th Annual Fantasy Tree Festival helped inaugurate the holiday season for southeast Colorado this past Saturday, November 19. The annual event raises funds to support the activities of the Domestic Safety Resource Center which serves several area counties. Businesses, organizations and citizens decorate a Christmas tree or wreath in a theme of their choosing […]
Breast Cancer Topics Featured through October
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and some 50 Lamar area residents took part in a Linked in Pick, Woman’s Walk around Willow Creek Park walk to show their support of on-going efforts to educate the public healthy lifestyles which can help prevent the disease. Sponsored in part by Prowers Medical Center, High Plains Community […]
Southeast Mental Health Services Expanding to Memorial Drive
Just as Lamar has an industrial park off North Main Street, a comprehensive medical park has been developing over the years at the northern end of Memorial Drive. Another addition to the site now anchored by Prowers Medical Center and High Plains Community Health Center, took a step closer to fruition Tuesday, October 4, […]
Great Growing Season
Squash, cucumbers, cantaloupes, green peppers, tomatoes, jalapeno peppers and other tasty vegetables were on someone’s menu recently. This past Wednesday, August 7, Karl Nieschburg, Liliana Garcia, Courtney Hasser and Miriam Chavira, employees from High Plains Community Health Center went to check the crop at the community garden just south of the center, and came away […]
Go for the Cold! Ice Cream at Willow Creek Park
Photos and Video By Russ Baldwin When the thermometer reads 104 degrees, it becomes difficult to note that autumn is only four weeks away by the calendar, September 23, 2011 to be precise. Few Lamar residents were thinking fall this past Thursday evening for the annual Lamar Chamber of Commerce Ice Cream Social […]
High Plains Adult Health Center Opens in Lamar
“Busy Month for High Plains Community Health Center” A ribbon cutting for the grand opening of the Adult Center/Chronic Care facility on Friday, August 12; the start of the Get Lean Lamar weight loss program on Thursday the 11th, a blood drive on Monday and the 16th anniversary celebrations of HPCHC on Monday, August 1…all […]
Women’s Auxiliary of Lamar Eagles Donate to Migrant Coalition
“Quite a few migrant families have been arriving in southeast Colorado over the past week,” Gerri Jenkins said Thursday, July 21. Jenkins, vice-president of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Lamar Eagles, and other Auxiliary members, made a $200 donation to the Migrant Coalition members at High Plains Community Health Center. Jenkins said, “This was the […]
Free Fun in the Sun for Area Teens
Click on a Picture to see a larger version – Photos and Video By Russ Baldwin This was one of several summer events put on for area kids, funded in part by a JAG grant, and local contributors. Sherri Kerr and Lori Hammer from the Teen Center estimated at least 380 kids by 2pm, and […]
Pedaling in High Style
Olivia Medina of Lamar was one of 14 youngsters who were put through their bike riding paces this past Saturday, June 25 at the pool parking lot at Willow Creek Park. The Lamar Parks and Recreation Department host an annual Bike Rodeo for youngsters up to the age of 12. Once a year, bike riders […]
High Plains Community Health Center Adds New Physician
Wayne Hudson D.O. has joined the staff of High Plains Community Health Center. Dr. Hudson comes to Lamar from Ohio, where he has spent the last thirteen years as a primary care physician and surgeon in private practice. He completed medical school at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirskville, Missouri, completed an internship at […]