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VashonBePrepared recruits, organizes and trains the Vashon Emergency Operations Center team in cooperation with Vashon Island Fire and Rescue. Learn more about us.

VashonBePrepared News Coverage

Vashon’s Medical Reserve Corps COVID_19 Testing Program has been featured in a New York Times article. The article highlights efforts of Vashon doctors and many other island volunteers, to develop the Rural Test and Tracing Toolkit. The Toolkit provides a system for COVID testing in rural areas with a shortage of supplies or lack of convenient medical services. The story came about as a result of outreach to share the innovative approach with other rural and tribal communities. Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/health/coronavirus-vashon-washington.html
Vashonite Dr. Jim Bristow was interviewed on MSNBC to discuss the Medical Reserve Corps COVID_19 Rural Test and Tracing Toolkit. The toolkit is being shared with rural and tribal communities that do not have ready access to COVID-19 testing or have supply shortages. See the interview on MSNBC at http://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/wa-island-community-creates-simple-self-service-testing-system-83696709592.
KUOW’s Seattle Now program features Vashon’s COVID-19 testing plan, Rural Test and Tracing Toolkit. Listen to the broadcast at https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-now-vashon-takes-on-covid
Seattle Times: Vashon Island: remote and ready to fight coronavirus’ next wave - https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/vashon-island-remote-and-ready-to-fight-coronavirus-next-wave/

Press Resources

COVID-19 vaccinations are available free on the island at Vashon Pharmacy and Sea Mar at Sunrise Ridge, as well as other locations off-island.

• Sea Mar Clinic: SeaMar.org/COVID-Vaccine or (206) 463-3671
• Vashon Pharmacy: VashonPharmacy.com/COVID or (206) 463-9118
• King County Vaccine Site: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/vaccine.aspx
• Pierce County Vaccine Site: https://www.tpchd.org/healthy-people/diseases/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine-information
• State Vaccine Site: https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/Vaccine

Contacts

Jinna Risdal, PhD

Jinna Risdal, PhD is a retired Therapist, Educator, and Administrator who lives on Vashon Island. She is a graduate of University of Colorado and Union Graduate School. As School Counseling Program Coordinator, she facilitated the design, development, and implementation of a Comprehensive School Counseling Program in a large, highly diverse urban school district. She wrote federal grants to increase funding for mental health resources in the district and served as the lead for the Crisis Team. As Coordinator for the Homeless Students Education Program, she ensured that the McKinney-Vento legislation mandates were implemented and wrote federal grants to increase program support. Jinna developed prevention curricula and taught graduate courses in School Counseling at several universities. Jinna is currently the Lead for the Community Care Team, the Mental Health division of the Medical Reserve Core under VashonBePrepared.

Clayton Olney, DO

Clayton J Olney, DO was a PA and EMT practicing in a Houston suburb for two years prior to medical school. His DO degree was conferred in 1993 and he completed Pediatric residency and a Neonatal fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. He has more than 20 years of experience in neonatal medicine with concomitant medical staff leadership experience in Houston, Dallas and Tacoma. In 2017 he accepted a civilian neonatal appointment that includes training pediatric residents at Madigan Army Medical Center. He now co-directs the Vashon MRC with Dr. Bristow.