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Oregon House legislative leaders speak to the press during a Jan. 16, 2025 media availability about the upcoming legislative session. From left, House Minority Leader Christine Drazan, House Speaker Julie Fahey and House Majority Leader Ben …
Oregon officials, experts grappled behind the scenes with youth …
The Oregon situation is mirrored on the national scene. In October, the New York Times reported that a $10-million National Institutes of Health-funded review of research on puberty-blocking drugs went unpublished due to concerns it would feed efforts to ban youth transgender care proliferating in red states. The article drew notice in Oregon.
Last year was the deadliest on record for people in Portland who …
At least 456 people experiencing homelessness died in 2023, according to an annual report from the Multnomah County Health Department published Friday.
Oregon should be held in federal contempt for mental health …
The state hospital eventually began complying with the seven-day admission requirement for a total of seven months, Cooper said. But admission wait times again rose. Meanwhile, critics have said the discharge deadlines are creating a revolving door in the criminal justice system, straining the system and hurting public safety and patients rather than helping.
Oregon lawmakers share plans for 2025 session | The Lund Report
Oct 2, 2024 · I watched with interest the CCO of Oregon meeting on Wednesday. Being a dentist with long interest and history with all things Medicaid dental, I have to say as long as we have a system that treats the results of the dental infection rather than the infection, more money will be needed as both Dr. Javadi and Pham stated.
Oregon lawmaker wants to expand emergency housing program …
Jan 16, 2025 · In southern Oregon, an emergency housing program shelters people while they are waiting to enter residential addiction treatment. Two providers teamed up to start the program, called waitlist emergency housing, within the last two years. The goal is to get people in addiction off the streets and ...
Analysis: Six things to know about the big CareOregon merger
Jan 16, 2024 · This article has been updated to incorporate additional reporting. State officials on Jan. 17 are scheduled to make Oregon health care history when they issue a recommendation on whether to approve the merger of CareOregon — a Portland-based nonprofit that provides care to 500,000 low-income people — into a California-based entity known as SCAN Group.
Analysis: Rage has long shadowed American health care. It’s rarely ...
Dec 19, 2024 · Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia (“Black Hawk Down”), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie (“Collateral Damage”), and a future Oscar winner about a brilliant mathematician struggling with schizophrenia (“A Beautiful Mind”).
Growing ranks of Oregon nurses not enough to ease shortages, …
Dec 11, 2024 · State Rep. Christine Goodwin, a Canyonville Republican and committee vice chair, asked why nurses are leaving when Oregon is among the highest-earning states. “There needs to be a culture change within healthcare, so that people who work at healthcare are treated as well as the patients who are getting their healthcare,” Bitton responded.
Safety net clinic on Southern Oregon coast to close down suddenly
Jan 17, 2025 · Coast Community Health Center, a federally funded nonprofit that operates clinics and other services to serve low-income people and students south of Coos Bay, has issued an announcement that it will shut down entirely in four weeks time, sparking concerns and questions among patients, providers and business partners.