A nurse at Rogue Regional Medical Center, the largest hospital in the county, says that for the first time a stream of people are staggering into the emergency room, short of breath.
Nov 18, 2020
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Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Southwest Portland.
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A total of 177 will be offered new jobs in a Providence affiliate based in Iowa but they'll be able to stay where they are and work under their current boss.l
Nov 18, 2020
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Surgeons perform a heart transplant at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center if Southwest Portland.
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Providence St. Vincent Medical Center has performed five heart transplants since July, and Oregon Health & Science University is on track to complete its fifth heart transplant this week since April this week.
Nov 18, 2020
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The Oregon Health Authority in Salem.
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Government officials and industry experts expect to see consolidation among health systems and smaller organizations following the financial hit caused by the pandemic.
The increase in hospitalizations from 2008 to 2018 underscores the need for the state to find new ways to treat and prevent addiction, researchers said.
Many others are being penalized as part of federal Medicare programs that cut pay to hospitals for frequent readmission of sick patients and hospital-acquired infections.
Nov 5, 2020
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PeaceHealth, Vancouver - Medical Center Physician's Building.
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Providence researchers will begin testing on 36 people as part of a Phase 1 trial of a drug developed in collaboration with two biotech companies -- OncoSec and UbiVac.