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OR Budget Hearings – Your Chance to Speak

by Liz Baxter | Apr 15, 2013 | Act, Events from selected partners, Learn

The Ways and Means Committee of the 2013 Oregon Legislative session is on the road, holding public hearings on the state’s proposed budget. Here are the remaining meetings on their calendar so far: Bend: Friday, April 19 4:30 – 6 pm William Healy Armory...

Public Event May 6th: Health Comparison Data for Consumers

by Liz Baxter | Apr 14, 2013 | Events, Events from selected partners, Events from We Can Do Better, Learn

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Conference on Healthy Aging for Boomers, May 18th

by Liz Baxter | Apr 2, 2013 | Act, Blog, Events, Events from selected partners

Our colleagues at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine are hosting a conference titled: New Approaches: The Healthy Aging Conference for Boomers Saturday May 18th, from 8am – noon. Get more information...

2013 Legislative Session and WCDB

by Liz Baxter | Apr 2, 2013 | Blog, Learn, We Can Do Better - News

We Can Do Better is supporting several bills during this legislative session. The first relates to advancing cultural competency among health and health care professionals (HB 2611). We first endorsed this proposal in 2011, seeing it as a vital component of reaching...

It’s Public Health Week!

by Liz Baxter | Apr 2, 2013 | Act, Blog, Events, Events from selected partners, Learn

In March 1995 President Bill Clinton declared the first week of April to be National Public Health Week. Here are some exceprts from his proclamation: While our society’s medical technology has advanced to a level unimaginable to the generations before, the...