Planned Parenthood opens Junction City clinic.Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard Today, Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood A service mark used for an organization that provides family planning services. celebrates its third advance into Lane County's rural cities with the formal opening of an "express" clinic in Junction City Junction City, city (1990 pop. 20,604), seat of Geary co., NE Kans., at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers; inc. 1859. The rail, trade, and processing center of an agricultural and dairy area, it grew as the supply point for nearby Fort Riley, . The new clinic in a low brick building at 275 Greenwood St. follows the creation of clinics in Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). and Florence in the past year. "With express, we offer any service that doesn't require a pelvic exam Pelvic Exam Definition A pelvic examination is a routine procedure used to assess the well being of the female patients' lower genito-urinary tract. ," said Diane Duke, agency senior vice president. "That would be pregnancy tests, contraceptive visits, Depo injections, birth control pills birth control pill n. See oral contraceptive. birth control pill Oral contraceptive, see there , some sexually transmitted disease sexually transmitted disease (STD) or venereal disease, term for infections acquired mainly through sexual contact. Five diseases were traditionally known as venereal diseases: gonorrhea, syphilis, and the less common granuloma inguinale, screenings." The express clinics are staffed with registered nurses. They can provide almost all family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. services, but under state law they can't provide a pelvic exam for women. Clients must continue to get annual exams to the agency's main clinics in Eugene, Springfield, Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass, where nurse practitioners are on duty. Planned Parenthood expects to serve women from Harrisburg, Monroe and Junction City at its new clinic. That will mean an easier trip for 700 clients who live in those cities, the agency said. The Cottage Grove clinic sees 15 to 18 clients on the one day it's open per week. The Florence clinic serves 18 to 24 patients two days per week. Each time the agency opens a rural clinic, the staff discovers a segment of women who earlier had no opportunity to get birth control because they lacked the ability to travel or to pay for the service, Duke said. The Junction City clinic will be open from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays and from noon to 5 p.m. Fridays. The clinics do not perform abortions, but abortion is one of several options - including adoption and parenting - presented to women who ask for counseling, Duke said. Rural community residents have been open, warm and welcoming, Duke said. "We really have not run into a wall with any of them. People understand the need for family planning in their communities," she said. Speeches and snacks will be offered from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Junction City site. |
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