ENT Office Opens
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical center has recently opened a satellite ear, nose and throat off in Florence at the Peace Harbor Campus. Dr. Frank Chen is one of the physicians there and he say the response has been impressive with the offices booked out more than 3 months already.
“Nearly all the patients have said that they are grateful and they are happy that there is a service line there for ENT and they don’t have to travel as far.”
Last week Dr. Chen performed the first ENT surgery at the hospital on an adult male patient. He says the services will expand moving forward.
“We are right now doing procedures for adults and then we eventually will start doing the pediatric population later this year.”
The ENT offices are opened only on Fridays and are by referral only.
Stand Down
On February 22nd the Florence Elks lodge will once again host a Stand Down which provides services in health, finance, housing, employment and more. It was a service that was traditionally offered to veterans, but William Wagner, program facilitator says it is open for the public.
“It helps the community and the veterans network together and it helps the community learn a little bit more about the acronyms and the slang and the different pieces of veteran language, how they communicate that they do need help and that they are not doing well.”
Wagner says the program started in the 70’s after veterans returning from Vietnam were showing difficulties getting back into civilian life and over the years has grown significantly. This is the second stand down hosted in Florence at the Elks lodge on 12th street and will be Saturday the 22nd from 9-1 with a free meal provided and again it is open to veterans and all the community.
Weather
Last night’s wind event left some debris on the roadways, but did not do much to interrupt power in the Florence area. Central Lincoln PUD reported only one outage along the coast and it affected 5 customers. A cold weather advisory remains in place through mid day and a winter weather advisory is in effect until 4am Friday. Wind gust during the day today could be as high as 23 mph.
