Oregon Lawmakers Plan Roadmap For Behavioral Health Needs
Oregon lawmakers may create a commission with a lofty but long-term goal: finding a solution for the state’s crisis in mental health.
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Oregon lawmakers may create a commission with a lofty but long-term goal: finding a solution for the state’s crisis in mental health.
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Oregon lawmakers want to put more money into helping unaccompanied homeless youth before they enter adulthood without a home or future.
They live in the shadows, failed by their families, public schools and the foster care system.
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Oregon lawmakers are eying a proposal that would cost the state $15 million for behavioral health clinics.
Overall spending on primary care in Oregon increased in 2018, but growth in specialty and hospital care grew even more, eating up an even bigger piece of the health care economy, according to a state report released Monday.
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Only about 40% of Oregon dentists accept Medicaid patients. More than two dozen rural communities don’t even have a single dentist.
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The Oregon legislative session that starts next week is likely to be the stage of a contentious battle over high health care costs -- but this time prescription drugs won’t be the focus.
Dialysis will.
Gov. Kate Brown on Monday announced a slate of medical professionals, legislators and public health experts to address vaping-related deaths and illnesses in Oregon.
Health Share of Oregon, the state’s largest Medicaid provider, has tapped James Schroeder, a physician’s assistant and former executive at Kaiser Permanente, to be its next chief executive officer after a search lasting more than a year.
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Oregon’s legislative leaders aren’t expecting health care to be the wedge issue that divides lawmakers this session.
Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer, an advocate for human services and health care in the Legislature, has announced she is not running for re-election in November.