Our Community Birth Center, a developing freestanding birth center in Lane County, just launched a capital fundraising campaign. The birth center plans to fill the gap in care left by the recent closure of PeaceHealth’s Nurse Midwifery Birth Center in Springfield.
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Nov 13 2019
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A daylong conference devoted to health care policy, coverage and care in Oregon this week ended with a discussion of the elephant in the room: the price of care.
The United States spends too much on health care, gets too little and throws billions away.
Nov 12 2019
House Democrats are poised to pass sweeping legislation to lower drug prices using strategies President Donald Trump has endorsed. A Trump aide urged the Republican-controlled Senate to vote on a different package curbing drug prices that was drafted by a senior Republican.
Nov 11 2019
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The Oregon Health Authority has abruptly halted the controversial drive by Trillium Community Health Plan into the Portland-area Medicaid market for 2020.
Nov 11 2019
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A labor movement that has swept through academic medical institutions across the country has finally arrived in Oregon.
Nov 10 2019
New Seasons Market is recalling fresh ground beef sold in three of its stores over an outbreak of E. coli.
Nov 10 2019
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For the second time in nearly three years, a noose was found on the Oregon Health & Science University campus.
Nov 8 2019
Before his double lung transplant, Tom Saputo thought he had anticipated every possible outcome.
But after the surgery, he wasn’t prepared for the price of the 27-mile air ambulance flight to UCLA Medical Center — which cost more than the lifesaving operation itself.
Nov 7 2019
Andrew Echeguren, 26, had his first psychotic episode when he was 15. He was working as an assistant coach at a summer soccer camp for kids when the lyrics coming out of his iPod suddenly morphed into racist and homophobic slurs, telling him to harm others — and himself.
Nov 6 2019