Prices also varied wildly from one hospital to another, which the state says underscores the importance of Oregon’s new cost-growth control program.
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State health officials called on local public health officials in areas with low rates to work with businesses and others to encourage inoculation.
Jul 22 2021
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COVID-19 cases are on the rise, especially in counties with the lowest vaccination rates, state data show.
Jul 22 2021
A small study by Oregon Health & Science University indicates that people between 70 and 82 have a less robust response to the virus than those 20 to 29.
Jul 22 2021
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A former Oregon state prisoner alleges his finger was amputated because of malpractice by a doctor at the Columbia River Correctional Institution in North Portland.
Jul 22 2021
In many Oregon counties, fewer than a quarter of eligible Medicaid members have gotten even a single shot of COVID-19 vaccine.
Jun 7 2021
This was the first assault by a patient on a National Guard member the hospital has recorded since 30 National Guard members began working on June 24 to help stem a staffing shortage.
Jul 22 2021
Booster shots are likely to be here before long because of the outdated, 60-year-old basic standard the Food and Drug Administration uses to authorize medicines for sale.
Jul 21 2021
Smoke and heat in the West are driving people to seek refuge at libraries, movie theaters, museums and other indoor venues.
Jul 22 2021
As more heatstroke patients arrived at hospitals in Washington, doctors used human body bags filled with ice and water to quickly immerse and cool several elderly people.
Jul 22 2021
Only 3,600 of an estimated 16 million Medicare beneficiaries eligible for a two-year diabetes prevention program have actually signed up since Medicare started covering the program in 2018.
Jul 21 2021
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For migrant farmworkers, outreach and mobile clinics are key to increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates and overcoming hesitancy.
Jul 19 2021
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A $1 million lawsuit filed against Central Oregon’s largest hospital, St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, alleges that a patient was sexually abused by an oncologist.
Jul 19 2021
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James Reagan Marcroft-Clark accuses the VA of ostracizing him after he complained about an official at a local housing agency.
Jul 20 2021
Already subject to unique discrimination at the intersection of gender and race, Black women with ADHD often remain undiagnosed because their symptoms are mischaracterized.
Jul 20 2021
Tens of thousands of times a year, hospitals charge enormously expensive trauma alert fees for injuries so minor the patient is never admitted.
Jul 19 2021
The payments are intended to make up for the free or reduced-cost meals that more than children missed out on during the past year.
Jul 20 2021
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The vaccination rate target for minorities – as well as for whites – recedes into the distance as fewer and fewer people are receiving shots each day.
Jul 20 2021
KHN teamed up with PolitiFact to analyze Biden’s campaign promises, but experts say the jury is still out on how meaningful these efforts will be.
Jul 19 2021
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Torben Nielsen, who led the company’s expansion for two years is gone, replaced by veteran executive Jeffrey Fee.
Jul 15 2021
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Stephanie Hodges accuses Northwest Oral & Implant Surgery of failing to accommodate her needs after surgery.
Jul 15 2021
Fights between the Proud Boys and counterdemonstrators broke out during an event outside the health clinic Tuesday evening, police said.
Jul 15 2021