Oregon Health Care Association

Walter Dawson, PhD, awarded grant for research-based comparison of U.S. and Canadian long term care systems

The Oregon Health Care Association is asking legislators for cost of living adjustments in the 2015-17 budget to meet the growing needs of low-income seniors.

Study by Portland State University shows needs of Oregon seniors has risen while Medicaid reimbursement rates decreased in community-based care settings

The spending by doctors groups, nurses, hospitals, dentists and insurers helps underwrite legislators’ campaigns, as political action committees seek to influence legislation and the state budget in Oregon. Groups that gave less have had considerably less clout in Salem.

A new law that will expand the state home care Medicaid registry onto the open market has some private agencies who offer this kind of care worried that the state is butting in on their business. Other observers maintain that the public option will have little or no effect on their ability to provide quality care to seniors.