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Did you know?

CCFHS served 12,763 Patients in 2008
• WIC served 588 mothers and
   kids per month.
• RESPONSE assisted 728 individuals in
  dealing with the violence in their lives.
• Family planning helped 853 people.
• Nearly every child grades K-3 received
  Oral Health Services this year.
• Free medication valued at $1,704,183
  was distributed to patients during
  2008 through the patient Assistance
  Programs.
 		 CCFHS Participates in Relay For Life
Every year Coos County Family Health Services
(CCFHS) participates in the American Cancer
Society’s Relay for Life. The Relay is a fun, team-
based overnight event that brings communities
together to learn about, celebrate the lives of
those who have battled cancer, remember loved
ones lost to the disease, and raise money for,
the fight against cancer. CCFHS participates in
the Relay to continue the American Cancer
Society’s progress toward a future where
cancer doesn’t take the lives of our friends
and family. For more information, please visit
www.relayforlife.org

 CCFHS Receives Federal Stimulus Money
Coos County Family Health Services will receive $200,277 in federal stimulus funds to help it continue to serve the growing number of local residents without health insurance.  The local community health center was one of ten in the state sharing a total of $1.66 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.  The funds are for a two year period.  CCFHS Executive Director Adele Woods said in the current economic downturn, her agency is seeing an increase in clients without insurance.
CCFHS Oral Health Program
Receives Grant
 The CCFHS Oral Health Program has
been awarded a grant from North-
East Delta Dental Foundation, Inc.
The CCFHS Oral Health Program
provides oral health education
and brushing instruction to children
in Berlin, Milan, Gorham, and Errol
elementary schools. School-based pre-
ventative dental services such as
cleanings, fluoride treatments, and
dental sealants are available to chil-
dren who do not have a dental home.
The funds will be used to purchase
fluoride rinsing supplies for a
weekly fluoride rinsing program that
benefits area children in grades K-3.
If you wish to make a contribution to
our community's children's dental
health, please contact Kathleen Kelley
at 752-3669. All contributions are tax
deductible as allowed by law.
 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)
 The ongoing outbreak of novel influenza A
(H1N1) continues to expand in the United
States and internationally. The CDC expects
that more cases, more hospitalizations and
more deaths from this outbreak will occur over
the coming days and weeks. 

The CDC continues to take aggressive action
to respond to an expanding outbreak caused by
novel H1N1 flu.
The CDC’s response goals are to:

1. Reduce transmission and illness severity, and
2. Provide information to help health care providers, public health officials and the public address the challenges posed by this emergency.

For more information, please visit
www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/ 		Pain Medications May Be Killing More than Pain by Kathleen Kelley
     According to New Hampshire Public Radio this week, in a two-day period in April, three young people in Dover and Rochester died of drug overdoses. Prescription medications – not heroin or cocaine – played a role in all of them.
     The abuse of prescription drugs, from oxycontin to morphine to methadone, is a growing but little-understood problem in New Hampshire. Our Providers at CCFHS have been studying our policies surrounding prescribing pain medication over the past two months. Dr. Mitchell Sullivan warns, “Unfortunately, the problem goes beyond teens, as there are adults with similar issues. And identification of a patient with addiction does not always help, as addiction facilities frequently prescribe suboxone which has become another drug of abuse. Our community has a serious problem with prescription drug misuse and we, as providers, will continue to work on ways to reduce this.”  Full Article