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SBHC Youth Legislative Awareness Day 2017

The Lund Report has been at the top of its game recently. Not only did we break the news about the sale of PeaceHealth Labs to Quest Diagnostics, but we were also the first to publish an article about Providence Health & Services selling its laboratory services to a national player, LabCorp, earlier this week.

The Department of Consumer & Business Services reported that it spent only 22 percent of its existing funding to cover the state’s costs to provide free health insurance to poor Pacific Islanders who are not eligible for the Oregon Health Plan.

Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, D-Gresham, spiked a vote on her bill that raises the smoking age from 18 to 21 after a cadre of Democrats objected to a clause that would allow police to pull over young motorists if they thought they were smoking. Black motorists are already pulled over 30 percent more often than white motorists, raising racial justice concerns.

While turmoil continues in Washington DC over the future of the Affordable Care Act, insurers are preparing their rates for the individual and small employer market to meet the May deadline required by the Oregon Insurance Division. Oregon Health Forum is bringing a panel of experts together on March 22 to probe what might happen at the federal level that could impact the business community.

The mission of the Multnomah Education Service District-School Health Services Department is “to ensure the health and safety of students by providing the highest standard of nursing care in the school and community setting so that students are given the opportunity to achieve their educational potential.” Currently they are hiring for two Nursing Supervisor positions

SB 423 would remove geographic barriers for physician assistants on the dispensation of some scheduled drugs, such as Sudafed. The pharmacist lobby wants to assure that PAs are logging their dispensing records on the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.

Sunshine (not snow or ice) casts a bright light on One Community Health’s annual event, offering free dental and medical care for uninsured youth.

Oregon currently depends more on federal funding for healthcare than all but four other states. “Our world might be upended,” Greg Van Pelt, president of the Oregon Health Leadership Council, suggested at an Oregon Health Forum breakfast earlier this week on the future of coordinated care organizations.

The largest state nurses union wants to repeal a statute barring nurse practitioners from performing vasectomies, which they can already perform in Washington state. The Oregon Urological Society objects.