The Hourglass Community Crisis Center operated for years in the red and struggled to find enough qualified staff
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The street nursing program sets out to help people at Hawthorne Park in Medford, Oregon, on Aug. 31, 2022. Since January 2022, small groups of OHSU School of Nursing faculty and students have hit the streets in Medford and Ashland to visit with people who are experiencing homelessness and offer basic health services. By the end of 2023, the OHSU Street Nursing Team plans to expand their efforts into neighboring Klamath County, Oregon.
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Older patients may end up forgoing medical advice after being overwhelmed by the complexity of the health care system
Apr 4
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A pile of flowers and a note eulogizing Bobby Smallwood, a security officer for Legacy Health, sit outside the Good Samaritan Medical Center, where he was killed during a confrontation on July 30, 2023.
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Health officials in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties have mapped hot spots to guide measures intended to avoid deaths during the next excessive heat wave
Apr 4
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden at a July 9, 2022 event in Portland.
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Senior Oregon Senator calls for more progress on marketing abuses, scrutiny of health care consolidation
Apr 3
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Gov. Tina Kotek said her administration will closely track the rollout of new programs and spending to address drug addiction and homelessness.
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Amid record Affordable Care Act enrollment, some insurance agents are complaining that their rivals are switching their customers to get monthly commissions.
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum talks with an official from Planned Parenthood before a news conference about the abortion pill on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
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The 23 Democratic attorneys general have argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that blue states are at risk of being overwhelmed by pregnant patients from states like Idaho that have restricted abortion.
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A view of the Oregon State Hospital spire from the courtyard on Nov. 21, 2023.
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