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MICK STEVENS OF TIGARD PUT HIS PARALEGAL CAREER ON HOLD TO TAKE CARE OF HIS DAUGHTER, JILLIAN, DURING THE PANDEMIC./COURTESY OF MICK STEVENS.

Oregon Parents Fight To Keep Care Payments As Pandemic Winds Down

Medicaid funds have gone to hundreds of parents of severely developmentally disabled children for their caregiving during the public health emergency, but that is slated to end.

Mar 17, 2022
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An artist's drawing of a new county Behavioral Health Resource Center planned for downtown Portland, at the old Bushong building site./Courtesy of Multnomah County

Provider Selected For Multnomah County’s New Behavioral Health Downtown Day Center

The Mental Health & Addiction Association of Oregon will operate a peer-run program at the Behavioral Health Resource Center, slated to open in Portland this fall.

Mar 17, 2022
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OREGON'S UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY HAS STEPPED UP TO RAISE MONEY FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO SEND TO THEIR NATION. THE FUNDRAISING, STILL ONGOING, HAS GENERATED NEARLY $100,000./COURTESY OF TATIANA TERDAL

Oregon-Based Groups Send Aid, Medical Supplies To Ukraine

Ukrainians in the Pacific Northwest are supporting their native country with donations as a Portland-based humanitarian group plans its response.

Mar 15, 2022
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A Pharmacy’s Delay Caused A Heart Attack, Lawsuit Claims

A Rite Aid in Pendleton is accused of delay in filling a prescription for an anti-clotting medication, which doctors allegedly blamed for a cardiac event.

Mar 15, 2022
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Five Ways To Support Ukrainian Hospitals and Health Care Workers

Russian bombs are overwhelming health care infrastructure in Ukraine. Medical supplies, donations and volunteers are needed.

Mar 15, 2022

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Officials: Oregon Reaches ‘Watershed Moment’ Of Pandemic

The end of mask mandates in most public places marks a new chapter of COVID-19 as state officials retool their approach.

Mar 12, 2022
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Poison Center Issues Warning Over Deadly Counterfeit Pills

Mar 10, 2022

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Providence Accused Of ‘Unfair And Deceptive’ Debt Collection In Washington

The hospital system is not under investigation in Oregon; it defends its record and denies any impropriety.

Mar 10, 2022
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A bill to increase the penalties for assaulting hospital workers died on the desk of Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, who has long championed equity in mental health services. | JONATHAN HOUSE/PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP

How Hospital Worker Felony Assault Bill Fell Victim To The Short Session 

Interviews shed light on how the House passed a bill with stiffer penalties for assaults on health care workers, but supporters’ last-minute efforts failed in the Senate. The bill had sparked concerns it would cause further criminalization of mental illness.

Mar 10, 2022
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Q&A: Prusak Reflects On Legislative Career – And Remaining Work

Rep. Rachel Prusak, chair of the House Health Care Committee, is leaving the Legislature when her term ends.

Mar 8, 2022
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