Past President Joe Robertson walks with his successor, Dr. Danny Jacobs, on the Oregon Health & Science University campus.
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OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
The hospital and university system’s spending plan for July 2017 through June 2018 includes heavy capital spending, an also a continuing focus on keeping expenses down as revenue growth slows.
A percentage of the faculty at Oregon Health & Science University feels burned out, doesn’t have confidence in the executive leadership and have experienced discrimination and harassment, according to survey results released this week to The Lund Report.
Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer, D-Portland, has another bill this year to help the state’s midwives practice their time-honored profession -- this one requiring hospitals that let nurse midwives practice to also give them the ability to admit patients and share in the rights and responsibilities of other providers.
Because the program re-established in 2013 is so focused on serving the Medicaid program, new providers in urban areas that have clinics focused heavily on the Oregon Health Plan are much more likely to receive help than new rural providers. Less than one-third of the recipients are practicing in the state’s hinterlands.