Jan Johnson

$20 Million in Funding for Mental Health Housing Available

Oregon Housing and Community Services is now accepting proposals for $20 million in state funds to develop mental health and substance use housing across Oregon.

Jul 7, 2016

Doctors and Payers Should Guide Healthcare Quality, Payment Reform

Pittsburgh expert tells the Oregon Health Forum audience that fundamental reform is needed not from health plans and health systems but from providers and purchases working together directly with Q Corp data.

Jun 27, 2016

Public Health to seek $30 million for Modernization in 2017-2019 biennium

An unprecedented assessment of where Oregon’s public health system is now and where it hopes to be to support a truly modern system shows an actual gap of $105 million.

Jun 17, 2016

Provider Billing Most Common Fraud but PhRMA Biggest Ticket

Medicaid spends $6 billion a year in Oregon alone and “whenever there is that big a pile of money, there is going to be fraud,” Rodney Hopkinson, attorney in charge and director of the Medicaid Fraud Unit for the Oregon Department of Justice told a City Club of Portland audience.

Jun 9, 2016

Keeping Mentally Ill Out of Crisis

Describing a friend in crisis who spent more than 40 hours without care in an emergency room waiting for an inpatient psychiatric bed to open, Jason Renaud, founder of the Mental Health Association of Portland, says the system has “lost trust.”

May 27, 2016

Filmmaker Lauds Oregon’s Health Information Exchange Efforts, Encourages Statewide Adoption

A screening of Dr. Kevin Johnson of Vanderbilt University’s documentary, No Matter Where: The Quest to Use Technology to Connect Healthcare, hosted by the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University, showcases barriers, hard-won successes on the journey to build and use electronic highways for healthcare information.

May 20, 2016

Health Share Soon to Begin Offering Alternative Treatment for Back Pain

Racism, discrimination and stigma emerge as Health Share’s community advisory council’s top priority in the Healthy Columbia Willamette Collaborative Assessment.

May 11, 2016

Tobacco Reduction Advisory Committee eyes California’s proposed $2 tobacco tax

After playing mostly defense during Oregon’s 2016 legislative session to stop tobacco industry efforts to prevent communities from enacting their own efforts to curb tobacco use, the committee now is watching California’s efforts to raise taxes on tobacco and e-cigarettes.

May 3, 2016

Public Health Advisory Board Required to Make Budget Request by June

But health officials want to flesh out a compelling vision and plans for sharing resources together with setting a dollar amount to fund public health modernization.

Apr 27, 2016

Pharmacies, Assisted Living, Dialysis Centers on Patient Commission’s To Do List

Rebecca “Gwen” Cox replaces the commission’s current executive director Bethany Walmsley on May 9. The outgoing leader bid farewell to her board with her perspective on “the state of the state” in patient safety -- including areas that need more attention.

Apr 13, 2016