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A new report from the Oral Health Funders Collaborative, including the Northwest Health Foundation, drilled down on a key driver of emergency department visits -- lack of access to a good dentist. The analysis found people without health insurance were eight times more likely than people with private insurance to head for the emergency room for a toothache or other dental ailment.

A recent land deal for St. Charles Medical Center and a group of Bend physicians may have been sweeter than first reported. Not only did their investment group, Cascade Property Holdings, sell the land for the new Oregon State University campus at a $3 million profit -- they sold the 10-acre parcel for 22 percent more than the appraised value.

Meghan Caughey was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 19. Now, after years of working with her illness, she stands out as an instigator of change in mental healthcare services across Oregon. Not only is Caughey the senior director of peer wellness services at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, but since 2006 she’s dedicated her life to improving peer wellness programs by creating community-based programs that help people function with mental health diagnoses and recover from homelessness and drug and alcohol addictions.