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Oregon Health Authority Could Face Deep Cuts To Behavioral Health, Medicaid

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The Oregon Health Authority may freeze new behavioral health programs, remove nearly one-quarter of the beds from Oregon State Hospital and pare back Medicaid services, even as the state reels from the pandemic with thousands of laid-off Oregonians applying for free health coverage under the Oreg

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Ben Botkin

Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests

The arrival of COVID-19 has provided a nuclear-level stress test to the American health care system, and our grade isn’t pretty: at least 73,000 dead, 1.2 million infected and

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Elisabeth Rosenthal

COVID Survivors’ Blood Plasma Is A Sought-After New Commodity

Diana Berrent learned she had tested positive for COVID-19 on a Wednesday in mid-March. Within a day, she had received 30 emails from people urging her to donate blood.

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JoNel Aleccia

Oregon Counties Scramble To Get Their Coronavirus Reopening Plans To The Governor

At least 23 counties have submitted proposals to Gov. Kate Brown's office to reopen starting on Friday.

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Ted Sickinger

As Oregon Reopens, More Masks Required, Certain Restrictions In Place Through September

Gov. Kate Brown released more details of her three-phase plan for reopening businesses on Thursday that includes new requirements for masks in public and a set of criteria that counties have to meet to peel back coronavirus restrictions.

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Dana Tims

Pediatric Clinics Hard Hit By COVID-19 As Patients Stay Home

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Oregon pediatricians have experienced steep declines in patient visits during the pandemic, sparking layoffs and concerns that clinics in rural areas could shutter entirely.

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Ben Botkin

New Coronavirus Data Reveal Oregon Neighborhoods With Most Infections

Coronavirus infections in the metro area have largely spared Portland’s close-in neighborhoods and its most exclusive suburban enclaves, flourishing instead among people who live in far-flung suburbs and exploding in the Woodburn area of Marion County.

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Brad Schmidt

State Orders SE Portland Nursing Home Struck By COVID-19 To Shut Down

The state has ordered a Southeast Portland nursing home with the largest and deadliest coronavirus outbreak in Oregon to shut down.

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Fedor Zarkhin

For Clinic, Pandemic Highlights Social Determinants Of Health

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Three years ago, Prism Health opened its clinic in Southeast Portland to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer patients.

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The Lund Report

Oregon Reopening Plan Involves Testing 100,000 People, Opening Rural Areas First

Oregon officials plan to test 100,000 volunteers in a study tracking the spread of coronavirus as part of the state move towards reopening.

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Ben Botkin

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COVID-19

Oregon Health Authority Could Face Deep Cuts To Behavioral Health, Medicaid

Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests

COVID Survivors’ Blood Plasma Is A Sought-After New Commodity

Oregon Counties Scramble To Get Their Coronavirus Reopening Plans To The Governor

As Oregon Reopens, More Masks Required, Certain Restrictions In Place Through September

Pediatric Clinics Hard Hit By COVID-19 As Patients Stay Home

New Coronavirus Data Reveal Oregon Neighborhoods With Most Infections

State Orders SE Portland Nursing Home Struck By COVID-19 To Shut Down

For Clinic, Pandemic Highlights Social Determinants Of Health

Oregon Reopening Plan Involves Testing 100,000 People, Opening Rural Areas First

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