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SALEM HEALTH HOSPITAL IN SALEM./BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon Primary Care Providers Feel Squeeze As Pandemic Continues

Primary and urgent care providers face high patient demand — and are increasing services — as hospitals remain crammed with COVID-19 and other patients.

Sep 16, 2021
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Last August the intensive care unit at Oregon Health and Science University was filled to capacity. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Oregon’s COVID-19 Hospitalizations May Be Peaking, But It's A Long Way Down

Oregon’s hospitals are full and have been for several weeks. That isn’t going to change any time soon.

Sep 5, 2021

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Many COVID-19 patients at OHSU are in their 20s and 30s./Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPB

OHSU Treats Some Of The Sickest COVID-19 Patients In The State

The hospital has four intensive care units, and they're all full. With more COVID19 patients on the way, managers are gearing up for "crisis standards of care" to stretch staff and set up new beds.

Aug 23, 2021

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KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Delta Variant Is Breaking Records And ‘Clobbering’ Oregon

Younger people are getting sicker, faster, as doctors and nurses watch.

Aug 6, 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

St. Charles Bend At Capacity With COVID-19, Trauma Patients

As of Thursday, all 24 beds were full in the ICU, including five patients with the virus. Three of the infected patients are on ventilators.

May 28, 2021

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St. Charles Health System in Bend. | COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH

Central Oregon Runs Out Of Hospital ICU Beds

For the first time since the pandemic began, one of Oregon’s health care regions had patients in all of its intensive care beds for a day.

Dec 16, 2020
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