by Rick Ray | Jul 7, 2011 | Learn
Adult obesity rates increased in 16 states in the past year and did not decline in any state, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America‘s Future 2011 (PDF), a report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson...
by Rick Ray | Jul 6, 2011 | Learn, Videos
March 12, 2011, 30 minutes Corvallis Gazette-Times editor Mike McInally moderates a panel discussion on financing health care in Oregon. This session of the Affordable Health Care Workshop features Oregon state legislators Mike Dembrow and Frank Morse, and Eileen...
by Rick Ray | Jul 3, 2011 | Learn
Joe Rojas-Burke reports in the Oregonian that: The Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group, surveyed medical centers about protections from discrimination, visitation access for same-sex couples, and other policies. The group received survey responses from 87...
by Rick Ray | Jul 1, 2011 | Learn, Videos
HB 3650 will change the health care delivery system, beginning with people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Status Passed by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Kitzhaber on July 1, 2011. » Read an update in the Salem Statesman-Journal » Read...
by Liz Baxter | Jun 28, 2011 | Learn, We Can Do Better - News
Health Care Transformation bill passes Oregon House HB 3650 was approved by a 59 to 1 vote of the House on June 27th. A Senate vote is expected before the Legislature adjourns on June 30th. The Salem Statesman-Journal reports, “The bill will focus efforts on the most...
by Rick Ray | Jun 18, 2011 | Learn
Hospitals Performed Needless Double CT Scans, Records Show The New York Times reports: Long after questions were first raised about the overuse of powerful CT scans, hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by scanning their...
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