19 Oregon Counties Now In Lower Risk Category for COVID-19
Clatsop County to become the 19th county with the lower risk ranking, while Lane and Polk counties drop into moderate risk category.
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Fight Still On Over Springfield Midwife Center
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Advocates battling PeaceHealth’s looming closure of its standalone Nurse Midwifery Birth Center in Springfield are not giving up.
Kaiser Shifts Plans In Lane County
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Oregon’s largest commercial health insurer, Kaiser Permanente, has dropped plans to buy and develop a 20-acre parcel in Eugene, even as Kaiser continues to expand in the South Willamette Valley.
Coos and Lane Counties Now Lead State in People Sent to State Mental Hospital
People sent to the hospital to be treated after they are arrested for crimes has been a serious problem in Oregon for several years, but while Marion and Multnomah County have made progress, other counties, especially Coos, continue to send more than their share out of their community to the high-cost Oregon State Hospital.
Trillium Pushes Bill to Force Lane County Doctors To Take Medicaid
Some primary care providers have balked at Trillium's reimbursement rates, leaving 12,500 people without a primary care doctor. HB 3300 would mandate that those holdouts accept their “fair share” of Medicaid members if they want to continue taking care of teachers and state employees.
The House Rules Committee appears ready to pass a bill that would force primary care doctors to see Medicaid patients in Lane County if they want to also care for more lucrative patients from the Oregon Educators Benefit Board and the Public Employees Benefit Board.
