Jan Johnson

Cranes Start Moving on OHSU’s South Waterfront Buildings in January

The OHSU board approved bond financing for the Knight Cancer Research Building, the Center for Health and Healing South and Patient/Family Housing bringing its total debt to $1 billion.

Oct 29, 2015

Transformation Funded Teledentistry Pilot Kicks off in rural Polk County

This month Meagan Kintz, an expanded practice dental hygienist, packed up her “virtual dental home” and brought teledentistry to an elementary school cafeteria. The first student received preventive cleaning, fluoride and sealants as part of a new teledentistry pilot project in Independence, Oregon funded under a grant and Clinical Innovation Fellowship through the Oregon Health Authority’s federal State Innovation Model grant.

Oct 12, 2015

Student and Community Health Flourishes With School-based Clinics

Oregon School-based Health Alliance conference celebrates 75 certified school-based health centers in 21 Oregon counties accepting most insurance including OHP and offering services for free to those without insurance.

Oct 12, 2015

Tobacco Reduction Committee Passes Slender Budget, Expands Duties

Oregon’s Tobacco Reduction Advisory Committee approved a $19.7 million 2015-2017 budget, a little less than the $19.8 million in its 2013-2015 budget.

Oct 12, 2015

Dental hygienists Should Practice at the Top of their License

Oregon Oral Health Coalition Conference also calls for oral health equity for seniors.

Oct 5, 2015

Portland Barbershops Got Blood Pressure Push from North by Northeast Center

The only medical clinic focused on African American health in Oregon is reaching out to those most at risk.

Oct 5, 2015

OHSU Income $40 Million Better than Budgeted, Record Net Worth

Oregon Health & Science University celebrates 20 years as a “public corporation” with double the patients and students and quadruple the budget since 1995, president Joe Robertson told the OHSU board in his opening comments.

Sep 29, 2015

No Meningococcal Vaccine Requirement for Schools, Colleges

Oregon's School Law Advisory Committee voted not to require adolescents to get meningococcal vaccines or face exclusion from Oregon schools and colleges.

Sep 24, 2015

Public Health About to Assume New Role

In one of its last meetings under its old structure, Oregon’s Public Health Advisory Board looked at how electronic health records may skew statistics, the impacts of legalization of marijuana and writing a common lexicon for public health.

Sep 17, 2015

Everybody’s at Risk in Increasingly Unsecure Cyber Space

Sometimes they’re seeking drugs. Or they don’t have insurance and want healthcare.

Sep 17, 2015