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Disability Rights Oregon has been busy during the pandemic, with a steady stream of complaints from people about discrimination in health care.
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Oregon’s mental health system is in a crisis. But should the state focus on preventive care? Provide more therapy sessions? Add hospital beds?
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“We have to fight to get any money from them, and it can take years sometimes. It’s just become a huge problem.”
Health insurance enrollment in Oregon has soared since the pandemic hit.
In April, enrollment jumped 44% on the Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace compared with the same month last year amid rising unemployment due to the coronavirus.
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center is poised to perform heart transplants the second week in July.
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Oregon has learned some lessons from the pandemic but a full recovery will take years, according to public health officials and emergency planners testifying Wednesday..
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Oregon’s behavioral health care system faces a widening crisis.
People need more help than ever after months of isolation. Providers grapple with low reimbursements. Looming state budget cuts threaten to limit services, with no relief in sight.
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Depending on the level of unemployment created by the virus-induced economic crisis, Oregon would need to spend between $75 million and $516 million in state money to cover the additional Medicaid enrollees for the period January 2020-December 2022, according to a new report.
As a neuro-immunology specialist in Portland, I get a front row seat to witness the devastating effects on COVID-19 on my patients. And no, I don’t mean the effects of the virus on their neurological health.
The suggestion the world will not go back to normal until we have a coronavirus vaccine and everyone has been vaccinated is not based in science.
