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An AMR ambulance responds to a call in Northeast Portland. | JONATHAN HOUSE/©PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP/USED WITH PERMISSION

Clackamas County renews contract with AMR ‘just shy’ of requirements

Commissioners agreed to waive fines for American Medical Response’s contract violations despite earlier clash over firm’s contributions, lobbying

May 7
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The amount paid in deductibles by patients each year is increasing and is growing faster than the amount paid in co-insurance and copays. | OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY

Oregonians pay more for care as employers push high-deductible plans

A state report finds that Oregonians saw deductible expenses grow 31.9% over seven years as companies increasingly offer thinner coverage that shifts costs, risks to employees

May 2
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A still from a Milwaukie police officer’s body camera shows the inside of Providence Milwaukie Hospital prior to the death of Jean Descamps on Dec. 12. | PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP SCREENSHOT USED WITH PERMISSION

Feds launch investigation into Milwaukie hospital that discharged dying man

The death of a patient discharged from Providence Milwaukie Hospital has sparked a federal inspection and finding of 'immediate jeopardy'

Jan 18
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Patrons of the proposed Navigation Center in Oregon City would encounter a staffed front desk to direct them to services located inside the building. | RAYMOND RENDLEMAN/©PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP/USED WITH PERMISSION

Clackamas County funds $10 million for homeless health and services center

The nonprofit Homeless Solutions Coalition plans to build a Navigation Center in Oregon City next year

Nov 2, 2023
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Dr. Martin Donohoe’s New Book Cites Major Advances in Public Health

November 23, 2012 -- When you Google “public health and social justice,” the first thing that comes up is Portland Dr. Martin Donohoe’s expansive website. Now Donohoe, 49, is turning his go-to resource into a book that also compiles the major advances in the public health field, but in a handy best-of format of a mere 656 pages for $85.

Nov 23, 2012

Naturopaths Given Reprieve by Oregon Health Authority

November 16, 2012 -- Naturopathic doctors are “cautiously optimistic” that they will have a place within Oregon’s coordinated care organizations (CCOs) after officials threatened to cut them out of the primary-care system and seemingly ignore non-discrimination language in Senate Bill 1509.

Nov 15, 2012

Lincoln City Physician Forced to Transfer 95 Miles, Then Fired

October 23, 2012 -- A Lincoln City physician’s abrupt transfer and firing highlights a statewide issue of unilateral authority that health plan administrators have when reassigning or laying off physicians. Samaritan Health Services initially reassigned Dr. Robert Oksenholt, one of Lincoln City’s most popular and long-serving physicians, to Lebanon, which is more than a two-and-a-half-hour drive to the southeast.

Oct 23, 2012

Naturopaths Left Behind in New Coordinated Care Organizations

September 19, 2012 -- Naturopathic medicine advocates worry that one of the many casualties of Oregon’s new coordinated care system will be Eugene resident Penelope Jones-Vaughn, who adopted a severely abused infant son with fetal alcohol syndrome from his birth mother. His symptoms included an inability to feel pain, weeklong bouts of constipation and waking up constantly with nightmares.

Sep 19, 2012

Study Targets ‘Opiate-Use Epidemic’ Risks for Women

August 23, 2012 -- Common sense says don’t prescribe the same pain medication, known as opiates, to 70-year-old man as a 24-year-old woman, but until now physicians haven’t had a firm basis for making such distinctions.

Aug 23, 2012