Hospital leaders plan to present a full plan to address the emergency department overcrowding in June
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An empty hallway is pictured at the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facilities (NORCOR) jail in The Dalles, Ore., Monday, July 31, 2017.
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They represent a small fraction of the tens of thousands of people who’ve lost free Medicaid benefits since last April
Apr 18
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Marsella Elie, a canvasser for the community organization Philly Counts, gives out Narcan, a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose, to a North Philadelphia resident as part of Philadelphia’s door-knocking campaign in neighborhoods heavily affected by the opioid crisis.
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City officials hope to normalize naloxone as an everyday item in the medicine cabinet and reduce the disparate impact of overdose deaths on minority communities
Layoffs are possible, but university executives say they hope to avoid or minimize them by focusing on profitable complex surgeries
Apr 18
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Ki Soon “Harmony” Hyun during a visit to the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Ore., in an undated photo provided by family. Hyun, 83, who had dementia, died after wandering from the Mt. Hood Senior Living care facility in Sandy, Ore., in December 2023, after the staff failed to lock and secure the doors.
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Oregon’s long-term care ombudsman highlighted significant issues at the facility in a report released earlier this month
Apr 18
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Katherine Goodlow holds Coco the puppy outside her grandmother's home in Hisle on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
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The median age at death of Native Americans was 14 years younger than for White Americans, according to an analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention