OPINION -- After a series of avoidable deaths of persons with mental illness at the hands of police officers, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division investigated the Portland Police Bureau, and in 2011 found the Bureau made a “pattern and practice” of harming people with a mental crisis.
Terry Coplin, who joined the organization in 1999 when it was still known as LIPA, has announced he’s retiring next July, and a national executive search firm is already looking for his successor.
Legacy Health has launched its own clinically integrated network designed to improve patient care and cut costs, but it's not expected to start operating for more than a year.
The number of Total Knee Replacement (TKR) surgeries being performed in the U.S. has tripled over the past decade and is projected to grow another 673% by 2030. Researchers have ascribed this meteoric rise to a combination of factors our society is facing -- the obesity epidemic, aging population, and unprecedented number of knee injuries in our sports-centric culture.
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Yamhill Community Care Organization (Yamhill CCO) will transition to 100 percent tobacco-free and smoke-free facility and grounds, effective Jan. 1, 2015.
Community Health Systems, the Tennessee company that owns McKenzie-Willamette Hospital, wants to increase healthcare premiums for employees as much as 9 percent while giving them a slight raise. The hospital posted $11.7 million in profits on patient care in 2012.
Officials at the Good Shepherd hospital told The Lund Report that unlike other insurers, Providence Health Plan doesn’t trust the hospitals’ judgment on hospital admissions and may later stiff them for payment. The dispute between the two companies led the hospital to send out a letter advising Hermiston residents to find another health insurance company.
Health Republic Insurance, a year-old health insurer that calls itself a “true non-profit,” held its inaugural annual meeting and board of directors’ election under a transparent tent in downtown Portland as a symbol of its member-governed structure.
