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Hands On Medicine
Shelda Holmes in her office on Oct. 17, 2024, the day before she closed Hands On Medicine, the primary care clinic she founded in 2006. Even after closing the clinic, Holmes said she'll have years of work ahead of her to get paid for the care provided by the clinic. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Hands On Medicine says goodbye as independent clinics struggle to break even

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Nurses represented by the Washington State Nurses Association picket outside PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver on April 18, 2024. The picket came during difficult contract negotiations between the nurses and hospital management. | COURTESY/WASHINGTON STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION

PeaceHealth nurses in Vancouver win boost in pay but not staffing

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Wyden Medicare event
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden speaks about reforms to Medicare at the Community for Positive Aging in Portland on Oct. 15, 2024. Wyden made the appearance on the first day of Medicare's open enrollment period, a time when seniors are bombarded with often confusing information. He was joined by Carisa Dickson, a manager in a Multnomah County program that helps seniors with Medicare.

As Medicare enrollment launches for 2025, Wyden sounds alarm

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Sterling Hanakahi, 73, and Anita Hanakahi, 70, of Tillamook say they were blindsided when Texas-based U.S. Renal Care executives announced they would close their kidney dialysis center in the coastal community Feb. 23. Anita has relied on the center for the past nine years. For her and 10 other local patients, she said, local dialysis treatment is a matter of life and death. | COURTESY OF ANITA HANAKAHI

Company says it will keep Tillamook dialysis clinic open until patients have care

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Sterling Hanakahi, 73, and Anita Hanakahi, 70, of Tillamook say they were blindsided when Texas-based U.S. Renal Care executives announced they would close their kidney dialysis center in the coastal community Feb. 23. Anita has relied on the center for the past nine years. For her and 10 other local patients, she said, local dialysis treatment is a matter of life and death. | COURTESY OF ANITA HANAKAHI

Tillamook dialysis closure has patients fearing the worst

Feb 7
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Lucas Coghill, 9, plays the PAX Good Behavior Game during class at Fern Hill Elementary School in Forest Grove, Ore., Nov. 9, 2023. The game focuses on helping students identify and encourage positive “PAX” behaviors and avoid “spleems” as part of daily classroom management. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB/THE LUND REPORT

Prevention in schools gets help from Oregon Health Plan

Feb 15
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Oregon Health & Science University researcher Jonah Sacha is a senior co-author of a study published in the journal Nature Communications on an experimental flu vaccine designed to protect against all variants of the virus. | COURTESY/CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS OF OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Study holds hope for revolutionary flu vaccine, OHSU researchers say

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A group of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at a Walgreens in Vancouver, Washington voted Sept. 3, 2024, to become the first workplace in the Pacific Northwest to join The Pharmacy Guild, a union created specifically to represent pharmacy workers. | COURTESY/THE PHARMACY GUILD

Vancouver workers’ vote reflects new pharmacy union organizing

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