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About 1,000 Contracted Health Care Workers Will Stay In Oregon Into 2022

State extends contract to allow traveling nurses and other workers to stay until mid-January 2022.
November 30, 2021
 
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A registered nurse in St. Charles Bend’s intensive care unit stood outside a room where hospital staff treated an unconscious COVID-19 patient in May. | THE BULLETIN

About 1,000 contracted health care workers will stay in Oregon until at least mid-January 2022 to provide relief to understaffed hospitals and othe