Providence Newberg Medical Center is the last acute-care facility in Providence’s Oregon network that lacks union representation for nurses.
That is likely to change Thursday when the hospital’s 150 nurses will vote in three private sessions, the last one closing at 9 p.m.
Medical-legal partnerships and the connections between health and housing dominated the May 1 meeting of Health Share’s Community Advisory Council.
While it’s not exactly fun to think about a potentially life-threatening disease, it’s critically important to encourage regular self-exams and medical screenings to detect suspicious spots, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. One in five Americans will be diagnosed with skin cancer in their lifetimes.
Dental care is among the stickiest problems in modern healthcare, according to panelists who spoke recently at the Virginia Garcia Healthcare Symposium. Problems in the dental care system are caused by a host of factors:
Mary Monnat, president and CEO of LifeWorks NW, isn’t known as a quitter.
In her 30-plus years at LifeWorks NW, the mental health and addiction prevention and treatment organization has grown from 50 staff members treating a few thousand clients per year to a tri-county operation with over 600 employees serving 17,000 individuals annually.
