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Audrey Kuehl, a study coordinator at the Clinical Research Institute of Southern Oregon, inoculates Trish Malone with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. | JIM CRAVEN FOR KAISER HEALTH NEWS

Oregon Accelerates Vaccine Expansion For May 1 Deadline

Migrant workers, frontline workers and multi-generational households are among the groups that will become eligible for vaccination sooner than expected.
Mar 19, 2021
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OHSU Hospital on Marquam Hill. | LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT

OHSU Physicians In Training Have A Union Contract

The contract aligns OHSU with other academic medical institutions on the West Coast and marks the third AFSCME bargaining unit at the university.
Mar 18, 2021
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Four Portland-area hospital system are running the Oregon Convention Center site while Salem Health is in charge of the fairgrounds in Salem. | OHSU

Searching For A COVID Vaccine In Portland? Try Salem Instead

Residents are finding it easier to drive to the Oregon State Fairgrounds and get vaccinated than to secure an appointment in Portland because of an uneven allocation of doses among counties.
Mar 18, 2021
About 30 people turned up at an rally for change at Oregon Health & Science University/Lynne Terry/The Lund Report

OHSU Employees Rally For Change

A small group gathered Wednesday to show solidarity with a former OHSU employee who’s filed a sexual assault lawsuit against the university and a former resident physician.
Mar 17, 2021
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Universal Health Services, which owns Cedar Hills Hospital in Portland, wants to build another psychiatric facility in Wilsonville. | COURTESY OF CEDAR HILLS HOSPITAL

Controversial Psychiatric Hospital Project Up For Public Comment

Under Oregon’s certificate of need process, critics and supporters will likely put the 100-bed project in Wilsonville, first proposed in 2016, under a microscope.
Mar 17, 2021
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Oregon's vaccine campaign will open to everyone on May 1 following a federal order./Oregon Health & Science University

Obeying Federal Order, Oregon Will Open Vaccine To All On May 1 

But the general population may still face delays, as Oregon officials plan to keep allocating doses in a targeted way to reach vulnerable groups.
Mar 17, 2021

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