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A group of rural Boardman residents assembled in a garage to speak with U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley about nitrates in Boardman, Ore. in January 2023. Advocates have been seeking to address a regional nitrate crisis for years. On Friday, Oregon agencies released an eight-year plan.
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Warren George, a retired business consultant from Corvallis, has been a longtime advocate for a single-payer health care system.
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Vapes, or e-cigarettes, typically contain nicotine but not tobacco.
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The OHSU Center for Health & Healing Building 2 in the South Waterfront neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, on July 25, 2020.
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Jensina Hawkins is co/chair of Churchill Area Neighbors and helped plan the upcoming citywide health care forum. She hopes many families will attend the free townhall event. Here, Jensina sits in their backyard with (two of four kids) daughters, Tahlia and Evelyn, and husband Desmond Hawkins.
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OHSU's main campus in Portland in September, 2024.
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Oregon Health & Science University
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Debra Ragoonanan, a nursing assistant at what’s now called the Massachusetts Veterans Home atHolyoke, says she has endured post-traumatic stressdisorderaftera covid outbreakin 2020killed dozens atthe facility, where she still reports for work. The state agreed to a $56million settlement for veterans and their families, but caretakershave gotten little assistanceas they grapple with the fallout.
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, on Nov. 21, 2023.
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