Oregon Health Policy Board, Coordinated Care Organizations meet July 30
What: A public meeting of the Oregon Health Policy Board and CCOs When: Monday, July 30, 10 a.m. to noon Where: Portland State Office Building, 800 NE Oregon St, Room 1B, Portland. Members of the public can call in to listen by dialing 888-808-6929, participant code...
Message from OHA Director Patrick Allen: Help write Oregon’s health care transformation story
For more than two decades, one issue has been at the top of the list of problems worrying Americans: health care. As a nation, we spend more for health care per person than people in other industrialized countries. Yet on many measures we suffer poorer health and...
Oregon Health Forum breakfast: Healthcare and Business: International Lessons for Oregon
The Oregon Health Forum is pleased to invite you to attend our May 23rd OHF Breakfast, “Healthcare and Business: International Lessons for Oregon.” Our panelists are internationally recognized scholars of US and international healthcare systems, Drs. Theodore Marmor...
Public meetings for a better Oregon Health Plan. OHP Members -We want to hear from you!
How is the Oregon Health Plan working? What would make it better? Please give us your feedback. Have you had good or bad experiences with OHP? We want to hear about them. Tell us about how your coordinated care organization (CCO) is doing. Your CCO is the local...
City Club of Portland, Friday Forum, November 17th, 2017 – Rural Healthcare in Oregon: Not big city medicine
Rural Oregonians suffer shorter life expectancies, higher death rates from chronic diseases, and poorer access to healthcare than Oregonians in urban areas. Some rural areas in Oregon have no health providers at all. What makes healthcare so challenging in rural...
Public Health Portland-Style: Health Care Reform: The Unspoken Issues
Join the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health for Public Health Portland Style! #7 Healthcare reform: The unspoken issues Over the past months health reform has dominated the national news. There have been several attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and discussion...
City Club of Portland Sept 29th Friday Forum: “Addiction, Recovery, and Public Policy: A conversation with William Moyers.”
The City Club of Portland is pleased to announce our September 29th Friday Forum, “Addiction, Recovery, and Public Policy: A conversation with William Moyers.” When: Friday, Sept. 29, 12:15-1:15, doors open 11:30. Where: The Sentinel Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave., Portland,...
City Club of Portland – June 23rd Friday Forum: The Sobering – and Inspirational – Story of Dave Dahl (formerly of Dave’s Killer Bread): Addiction, Mental Health, and an Iconic Oregon Business
The City Club of Portland is pleased to invite you to our June 23rd Friday Forum (rescheduled from May 5th): The Sobering – and Inspirational – Story of Dave Dahl (formerly of Dave's Killer Bread): Addiction, Mental Health, and an Iconic Oregon Business Date: Friday,...
You’re invited to a screening of “Big Pharma: Market Failure”
Why are drugs that have been on the market for years suddenly spiking in cost? Why does a drug get MORE expensive when a competing drug is introduced? What effect does the drug industry/drug lobbying revolving door have on drug prices? And what's being done in Oregon...
INVITATION: Free public showing of PBS documentary about health care in other developed countries – May 24th
Sick Around the World: Other Rich Countries Have Universal Health Care; Why Don't We? Join us for a FREE public showing of this PBS documentary about health care in other developed countries. WHEN: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 7-8pm: showing of the documentary 8-9pm:...