Rena Wickert News Today

Oregon newsrooms have partnered to share content to highlight the human toll of the pandemic. Our hope is this collaboration captures this historic nature of the COVID-19 crisis. UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION — A pickup truck rolled into the parking lot behind the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center on the Umatilla Indian Reservation on a recent Monday afternoon. Nurse Rena Wickert grabbed a clipboard and three swabs to test each of the people in the vehicle for the coronavirus. After Wickert swab...

MISSION — A pickup truck rolled into the parking lot behind the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center on the Umatilla Indian Reservation on a recent Monday afternoon. Nurse Rena Wickert grabbed a clipboard and three swabs to test each of the people in the vehicle for the coronavirus. After Wickert swabbed six nostrils, the truck’s driver waved goodbye and Wickert buzzed back into the clinic. Another nurse collected the swabs and walked them about 10 paces down the hall to the lab, which wou...

Umatilla tribe’s clinic uses innovation, lamprey freezer to respond to COVID-19 crisis Updated Dec 19, 2020; Posted Dec 19, 2020 NOT FOR REUSE. ONE TIME USE ONLY. radley W. Parks Nurse Rena Wickert administers a COVID-19 test at Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The clinic has transformed into the tribes COVID-19 crisis center. Facebook Share By Bradley W. Parks, Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon newsrooms have partnered to share con...