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128 Students to Receive $2,000 KAISER Permanente Health Care Career Scholarships on May 18

May 15, 2013 — When Annel Mendoza was 6 or 7, she learned her cousin had a heart murmur. After watching her cousin go from surgery through recovery, Mendoza decided that she wanted to become a heart surgeon. Read More >>

Barney Speight Isn't Kidding When He Says He's Retiring

Before leaving state government, however, Speight had some words of wisdom about the future of coordinated care organizations.
May 10, 2013 – This time around Barney Speight insists it's for real. On July 1, he's stepping down as special assistant to the director of the Oregon Health Authority, Dr. Bruce Goldberg, and intends to retire – for good. Read More >>

Nurses Need to Pull Up a Seat at the Table, Hassmiller Says

Noting that fewer than 6 percent of hospital board members are nurses, the coauthor of a report on the future of nursing said nurses' roles are often poorly understood by decision makers and the public
February 20, 2013 – Nurses need to make their voices heard when decisions are being made, both at the institutional level and at the policy level, according to Susan Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN who spoke at the Oregon Center for Nursing conference last week on the future of nursing leadership. Read More >>

New Tri-County Health Officer Comes With International Perspective

Justin Denny has lived and and practiced medicine all over the world, but says Portland feels like home
February 15, 2013 – Dr. Justin Denny was born in the United Kingdom and has lived and practiced medicine all over the world – most recently in Laos, where he worked for the United Nations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as a physician and epidemiologist, treating and trying to contain the spread of infectious diseases, as well as training other epidemiologists. Read More >>

New Faces Emerge at Capitol

Scott Gallant is back, temporarily, working for the Oregon Health Authority
February 7, 2013 -- A very familiar healthcare lobbyist who’s always been reluctant to speak to the media is back in the State Capitol after retiring in early 2009. Read More >>

Dr. Ira Byock Urges Portland Audience to Talk About End-of-Life Care

While opposed to Death With Dignity, Dr. Ira Byock also says conservatives have accused him of favoring euthanasia
January 30, 2013 -- Dr. Ira Byock, a professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical Center and writer on end-of-life and palliative care issues, talked to a packed house at the Oregon Humanities Center in downtown Portland about an unlikely topic for Friday night entertainment: death. Read More >>

Tricia Tillman Says Diverse Groups Need a Seat at the Table

As administrator of the Office of Equity and Inclusion, she believes coordinated care organizations should form partnerships with culturally diverse stakeholders
  January 2, 2013 -- Growing up in southwest Portland – and later studying political science at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. – Tricia Tillman didn't realize public health was an occupation, much less the one where she’d end up.    Read More >>

Oregon’s Health Exchange Plows Ahead Despite Unknowns

Cover Oregon, the state’s new health exchange created under the Affordable Care Act, faces plenty of uncertainties but presses full speed ahead to meet federal deadlines.
December 19, 2012 -- With the nod of approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid to run a health insurance exchange, Cover Oregon is plowing forward toward implementation. It’s scheduled to have a Web-based, one-stop marketplace up and running by next October, while coverage for the uninsured and small businesses will be available in January 2014. Read More >>

Rhonda Busek Takes High-Level Position with Oregon Health Authority

Busek, who’s been director of Medicaid programs for PacificSource Community Solutions, will become the deputy to Judy Mohr Peterson on Jan. 15
  December 13, 2012 -- Rhonda Busek is joining the Oregon Health Authority on Jan. 15 as the deputy to Judy Mohr Peterson, director of Medical Assistance Programs. “Rhonda will bring a unique set of skills and abilities to this position that will truly help us all move down the path of health system transformation,” according to an announcement by Mohr Peterson. “We’re very excited about having her join us.” Read More >>

Jim Russell Retiring from Mid-Valley Behavioral Health Care

Applications are now being accepted for his successor at www.mvbcn.org
December 5, 2012 -- When Jim Russell steps down as executive director of Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Network early next year he can point with pride to his accomplishments since taking over the helm in 1997. Read More >>
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