Holidays often mean hours of traveling which can be everything short of jolly when traveling with children. While giving your child a screen is easy, Wallowa Memorial Hospital's Speech Language Pathologist, Colby Garth, has great travel kit ideas for keeping your kids entertained during your...
'Tis the season of toys and gadgets galore. However, one of the best gifts that a child could receive is that of time and presence with the ones to whom they are closest. From a developmental perspective, children can learn so much from the time...
Wallowa Memorial Hospital is moving to a single hospitalist system that will provide shared care for all hospital patients by all hospital providers. This model has been in the evaluation stages but now the timing is right for implementation. One single, rotating provider will be...
September is National Cholesterol Education Month. Did you know that high blood cholesterol is one of the primary risk factors for heart disease? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. What is...
For the fifth time in the last six years, Wallowa Memorial Hospital has been named one of the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in the United States. Selected from the 2022 Top 100 CAH lineup, released earlier this year by The Chartis Center for...
Better Hearing and Speech Month Each May, Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM) provides an opportunity to share speech and language strategies and raise awareness about communication disorders and the role of Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and Audiologists. Wallowa Memorial Hospital has a new Speech-Language Pathologist. Introducing New to...
Wallowa Memorial Hospital has an excellent occupational therapy team consisting of three Occupational Therapists who work together to help people of all ages facing physical, sensory, or cognitive problems. Our therapists help people maximize independence in all areas of their lives. Meet our Occupational Therapists Angela Mart Angela...
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer refers to both colon and rectal cancer. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer, excluding skin cancer, diagnosed in men and women in the United States. Symptoms don't always occur in colorectal cancer, so regular...
The holidays are the most joyous time of year, but with them comes the stress of buying gifts for everyone. Kids especially are hard to keep up with, and while you want them to love everything that Santa brings, you also want to get them...
NOTICE; APRIL 05, 2019 – Due to an increased number of reported measles cases by the Center for Disease Control the Wallowa County Health Care District is placing this advisory to ask the public, our patients, to please call your health care provider prior to visiting the medical...