From equipment purchases to requests for extensions of temporary staff, signs abound of hospitals anticipating a drawn-out surge.
Sep 22, 2021
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Last year a state employee inadvertently released the vaccination status of some 40,000 Oregon state employees. Pictured is an Aviva Health temporary COVID-19 testing and vaccination site in Roseburg.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF AVIVA HEALTH
Out-of-state medical staffing companies are providing about 800 crucial health care workers in the weeks ahead as hospitals are swamped with COVID-19 patients.