Why we are called Wrenfield
The name comes from the hayfield beside our first clinic in Corvallis, and the small loud birds that lived in its hedge.
In 1987 two family doctors, Ruth Callahan and David Osei, rented half of a converted farmhouse on the edge of Corvallis. The other half was a feed store. Behind both was a hayfield with a blackberry hedge, and in the hedge were wrens.
Patients gave directions by it. “The doctors by the wren field” went on appointment cards, then on the sign, and by the time a second clinic opened in Albany in 1993 nobody could imagine calling it anything else.
What has not changed
Wrenfield is still owned by the doctors who work here. Nobody outside the valley decides how long a visit should be. You still choose one doctor and keep them.
The hayfield is a parking lot now, and the Corvallis clinic moved to Kings Boulevard in 2004. The hedge is still there, and so are the wrens.
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