The legislative committee will look at the addiction crisis from a wider perspective than Measure 110 alone
Oct 17, 2023
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Sarah Holland, a director at Portland-based Central City Concern, (right) speaks about housing and health care with Oregon Medicaid director Dana Hittle (middle) and Marin Arreola, a member of the Governor’s Racial Justice Council. The group spoke about Oregon’s Medicaid expansion at CCO Oregon’s annual conference about health care in Salem.
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BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE
A state system that often blocks treatment, with contractors trained by YouTube videos assessing patients, is under review after a whistleblower complained
Sep 4, 2023
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visits with U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in a roundtable discussion in Portland about preventing youth overdoses from fentanyl. Bonamici is planning legislation that would make a prevention curriculum available nationwide in schools.
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BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE
The Health and Human Services secretary visited Oregon on Friday and participated in a roundtable at a Beaverton school
Aug 8, 2023
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Chris Edwards (front left) and Saihou Suwaneh, two Oregon Department of Human Services workers, participate in a picket in front of the agency’s headquarters in Salem on March 9, 2023.
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BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE
Department of Human Services workers who care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities say their workplaces are unsafe and that they’re burned out