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July 13, 2022

Willamette Week’s Best of Portland 2022 Best Sips

Thanks to Andrea Damewood for including ¡Salud! in Willamette Week’s Best of Portland edition in the Best Sips category.

Read the full story here.

Learn more about ¡Salud!’s mission to make healthcare accessible and affordable for vineyard stewards and their families. Here. 

July 21, 2020

“E-Auction from ¡Salud! Donates Directly to Vineyard Workers” – Sip Northwest

“Unique to Oregon, ¡Salud! is a collaborative effort founded in 1991 by a group of winery owners and physicians in an attempt to support the community of vineyard workers. A project of OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center, ¡Salud! addresses the healthcare hurdles these workers regularly encounter. The program now serves approximately 2,500 patients each year, and all vineyard workers and family members in the Willamette Valley are eligible to participate.”

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July 21, 2020

“Amid a Health Crisis, ¡Salud! Puts Farmworkers First” – Wine Enthusiast

“This is the first part of these vineyard employees’ afternoon with ¡Salud!, a one-of-its-kind preventative health care service supported exclusively by Oregon’s winemaking community. ¡Salud! was founded in 1991 by Tuality Healthcare and a handful of producers concerned about how their seasonal workforce could gain access to basic healthcare, since they are not eligible for employer-sponsored plans due to the temporary nature of their work.”

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July 21, 2020

“Wine Country’s Farmworkers Are Staying Healthy Against All Odds” – Reasons to be Cheerful feature

“Since May 7, ¡Salud! has screened 400 farmworkers for Covid-19, with roughly four percent testing positive. (Only two have been hospitalized thus far and both are recovering at home.) Leda Garside, chief nurse at ¡Salud!, estimates that roughly 70 percent of the vineyard workers she sees do not have any other healthcare.”

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July 21, 2020

COVID-19 Clinics featured in Statesman Journal

“Wine harvest season looming, ¡Salud! screens agriculture workers for COVID-19”

Statesman Journal, written by Emily Teel

“For the past 25 years, non-profit organization ¡Salud! has provided multi-lingual, multicultural health care to the people who work in Oregon’s vineyards — in wineries, tending vines, harvesting grapes, and bottling.”

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July 24, 2019

“Why You Should Care About Healthcare Practices in Vineyards”

“Ever thought about the labor that goes into making a bottle of wine? What about the stresses that labor puts on workers? If you haven’t, you should.” – Mark Stock, The Manual

With sustainability becoming more of a focus for wineries, topics such as land and water use are often at the forefront of the discussion. Mark Stock’s recent article via TheManual.com features ¡Salud! and care for vineyard workers in other regions of the country as part of the sustainability movement, urging readers to consider the impact on agricultural workers.

Read more –  https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/healthcare-vineyard/
December 3, 2018

Oregon Wine Press “Record-Breaker ¡Salud! hits seven figures after stellar auction”

Thank you to Mark Stock and Oregon Wine Press for this snapshot of the 2018 auction at Ponzi Vineyards and Domaine Serene on November 9 and 10, 2018.

Together with the Summertime ¡Salud! E-Auction, the 2018 event season raised a record-breaking $1 million to provide healthcare to vineyard workers and their families.

Read the event recap by Oregon Wine Press here
November 20, 2018

WineBusiness.com features ¡Salud!

Thank you to L.M. Archer for highlighting not only the success of the 2018 auction, but the services ¡Salud! is able to offer thanks to this unique fundraising model.

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August 14, 2018

VICE Magazine covers ¡Salud!

“How One Industry Gives Healthcare to Its Hard-to-Reach Migrant Workers”

With stories from ¡Salud! Founder, Nancy Ponzi, and an update from ¡Salud! Services manager, Leda Garside, VICE Magazine illustrates why ¡Salud! is important now more than ever.

“That stress of living in this uncertainty, it adds a lot,” she said. “You were promised one thing and went from one area of hope and now we are in an area of, we don’t know. That creates a lot of stress, and that stress is reflected physically.” – Leda Garside, RN, MBA, ¡Salud! Services Manager

Thank you to VICE Magazine reporter Emily Gillespie and photographer Toni Greaves for accompanying ¡Salud! Services to a mobile health clinic in the summer of 2018.

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June 20, 2018

Summertime ¡Salud! E-Auction in SIP NW

Salud!, a program through OHSU Tuality Healthcare that provides healthcare services for vineyard workers and their families, is hosting a new online auction of its exclusive Pinot Noir cuvées.  The auction will debut at 8:00 am PST on Tuesday, July 17 and feature 40 lots of 12-bottle cases from the ¡Salud! Vintners’ Circle of top Willamette Valley winemakers. This pre-sale opportunity will run through Thursday, July 19 at 8 p.m. PST and gives wine fans a chance to access these exclusive wines before the program’s annual auction weekend being held November 9-10.

All registered bidders will be entered to win one 12-bottle mixed case of premium Oregon Pinot Noir. The lucky winner will be drawn on Friday, July 20 and notified via email.

Auction online link: https://supporter.greatergiving.com/Login?AT=8&PK=MkF6y7u8Rg1osbOC

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