A state system that often blocks treatment, with contractors trained by YouTube videos assessing patients, is under review after a whistleblower complained
Sep 4, 2023
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visits with U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in a roundtable discussion in Portland about preventing youth overdoses from fentanyl. Bonamici is planning legislation that would make a prevention curriculum available nationwide in schools.
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The Health and Human Services secretary visited Oregon on Friday and participated in a roundtable at a Beaverton school
Aug 8, 2023
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Chris Edwards (front left) and Saihou Suwaneh, two Oregon Department of Human Services workers, participate in a picket in front of the agency’s headquarters in Salem on March 9, 2023.
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Department of Human Services workers who care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities say their workplaces are unsafe and that they’re burned out
The state is asking people with COVID-19 to wait until one day after their fever breaks to be around other people instead of self-isolating for five days
May 10, 2023
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A box of Narcan, an-opioid reversing drug, before it was distributed at a day shelter in Ontario, Ore. on Oct. 13, 2022.
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