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Oregon's Constitutional Amendment For Affordable Health Care …
Oct 18, 2022 · A physician, Steiner Hayward sponsored the 2021 legislation. Now, Oregonians will decide at the polls in November if affordable health care should be a constitutional right. Supporters say the ballot measure would promote access to health care and inform future policy decisions. On the other side, detractors warn that putting health care as a ...
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Dentists are pulling ‘healthy’ and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn. This year, Oregon started requiring dentists to complete 56 hours of hands-on training before placing any implants following dozens of state investigations of botched surgeries and other implant failures. Nov 12. A pile of flowers and a note eulogizing ...
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Unexpected signups fuel $260 million budget hole at Oregon Health Authority. Unexpectedly high enrollment numbers in the Oregon Health Plan will cost ‘a big chunk of change’ official says, and agency officials now will ask lawmakers for help funding that care as well as for unplanned staffing costs at the Oregon State Hospital. Oct 22.
Oregon Health Care Workers Increasingly Turn To Unions
Jun 21, 2022 · The state’s health care workers are increasingly turning to labor unions and organizing, bargaining and seeking better pay and working conditions two years after COVID-19 hammered the industry. The shift reflects concerns about safety in the health care industry and is part of a broader push to organize, from logistics workers at Amazon ...
OHSU, Legacy submit long-delayed paperwork for proposed merger
This article has been updated to incorporate additional reporting. Oregon Health & Science University and Portland-based Legacy Health hospital chain have submitted their long-awaited application for state approval of a proposed merger, launching a new phase of scrutiny for the proposed deal. Having announced the idea more than a year ago, the public research university and six-hospital ...
Insurance Giant UnitedHealth Expands Into Oregon Primary Care
Apr 21, 2022 · Optum Health’s primary care and specialty clinics are giving the parent company a big financial boost. In 2021, Optum Health reported $4.4 billion in profits on $54 billion in revenue, a sizeable chunk of UnitedHealth’s overall profit of $16 billion on revenues of $287 billion. Optum Health has grown fast.
Lack Of Affordable Housing Is Biggest Cause Of Homelessness, …
May 31, 2019. “Homelessness is caused by a lack of housing, full stop.”. It really is that simple, Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, told an audience Friday morning at the Oregon Health Forum. Homelessness, she said, can’t be blamed on an opioid epidemic or shortcomings in the mental ...
Providence, Legacy warn thousands of patients of possible …
Jul 12, 2024 · A former Oregon Anesthesiology Group physician is suspected of having violated infection control standards, but so far the allegations have not been linked to any patient infections, authorities say