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Donna Overman selected SWMC physician
recruitment and development director
Donna
Overman has been appointed director of Physician Recruitment and
Development at Southwest Washington Medical Center.
Overman will report directly to
Gil Rodriguez, SWMC’s chief medical
officer. Rodriguez says that, in addition to recruitment efforts, Overman will
work with physicians and medical groups in the community to help plan to meet
the community’s needs for health care delivery in the future.
In recent years the medical center has
worked closely with physicians practices to help recruit 180 new physicians to
the community.
Overman most recently was director of
human resources and physician recruitment and retention for Pacific Medical
Group, a five-clinic care practice with 35 physicians in Oregon.
SWMC, southern Washington’s largest
employer with over 3,200 on the payroll, is served by 520 medical staff members,
who support 32 different medical specialty services in programs, focused on
cancer, heart, emergency, trauma, neuro-musculoskeletal, family birth and
primary care.
County growth rate accelerates
Clark Public Utilities added 416 new
families to its list of customers during August, bringing the annual growth rate
for the county to 2.86 percent. The rate of growth for all of 2003 was 2.65
percent, when the electric utility signed up 4,011 customers. Through Aug. 31,
this year Clark’s residential customer base has grown by 2,937 families.
Revenues from residential customers
and combined commercial and industrial customers were both above budget for the
month, reported the utility’s chief financial officer
Rick Dyer. The industrial and commercial
power use suggests an economic turn-around in Clark County, according to Dyer.
Oregon Chamber Players opening
10th anniversary season Saturday
The Oregon Chamber Players, composed
of professional musicians from throughout the Northwest, opens its 2004-2005,
10th anniversary season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, in All Saints’ Episcopal
Church, 4033 SE Woodstock Boulevard, Portland.
Saturday’s concert features selections
by Handel, Grieg, Gluck, Dvorak and Boyce. General admission is $14; student and
senior admission, $12. Tickets are available through Safeway TicketsWest and at
the door. For further information, call (800)
927-8788, extension 1.
Medical thermometer exchange set for
Southwest Washington Medical Center
County residents may exchange
household medical mercury thermometers for non-mercury thermometers beginning at
10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in Room 5 at Southwest Washington Medical Center, 400 NE
Mother Joseph Place, according to Clark County Public Works spokesperson,
Jim Mansfield.
The medical center has 200
thermometers available for the exchange program. For further information on
hazardous waste disposal, call 397-6118,
extension 4352.
Win pair of Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra tickets
Win two tickets to either of two
performances of the Vancouver Symphony this weekend. Winners will be selected
from those who correctly answer the following question:
Tchaikovsky was so entranced by Mozart's music that he orchestrated and compiled
a number of his pieces - what were they called?
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
season opening concerts at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10,
in the Skyview High School Concert Hall, 1300 NW 139th Street.
To be eligible, responses must reach
the Insider by 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7.
News briefs
The Southwest Washington Regional
Transportation Council meets in regular session at 4 p.m. today in the Public
Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street. g
An open house hosted by C-TRAN will present facts related to the .03-cent sales
tax measure, to restore the transit agency’s post-Initiative 695 budget, that is
on the Nov. 2 general election ballot. The open house is at 5:30 p.m. today in
Clark Public Utilities’ Orchards Service Center, 8600 NE 117th Street.
g Clark County
commissioners meet in informal session at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, in
Conference Room B in the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street.
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