Using hospitals to hold people who don’t need to be in a hospital is having ripple effects across the state’s health care system
September 12, 2024
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The front desk of ARCHES Inn in Salem, a hotel turned shelter that is operated by Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action. The facility offers wildfire survivors, as well as chronically homeless and medically fragile people a short-term stay. Settings like this could be part of addressing delays in hospital discharges in Oregon.
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COURTESY/MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION
Oregon’s hospitals have too many patients with nowhere to go.
