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Healthcare, Home, School Differ for Children with Special Healthcare Needs

December 5, 2011 -- The first federally funded report to compare children with special health care needs to children without reveals 14 percent to 19 percent of children in the United States have a special health care need and their insurance is inadequate to cover the greater scope of care they require for optimal health. Read More >>

OHSU Investigates Healthcare Experiences for People with Autism

Researchers hope to develop a toolkit to help people improve their experiences
November 30, 2011 -- Researchers at OHSU are developing a toolkit to deal with the barriers faced by people with autism in the healthcare system. Read More >>

Less Paperwork, More Patient Focus Can Dramatically Improve Care, Expert Says

Inefficiency continues to plague the medical system, according to Dr. David Reuben director and professor geriatric medicine at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine
November 16, 2011 -- Surveys of doctors show that now more than half think that providing higher-quality medicine may lead to losses in their earning power, a belief that may help explain why an exceptionally high number of patients don’t get recommended care, according to Dr. David Reuben MD, who spoke at the OHSU Foundation for Medical Excellence annual lecture earlier this week. Read More >>

OHSU Mirror Therapy Expert to Provide Free Training in Vietnam

Pain specialist wins grant to teach therapy for amputees in nation with high prevalence of people who've lost limbs
November 16, 2011 -- Oregon Health & Science University's Beth Darnall, Ph.D., is an international expert on a novel therapy for "phantom limb pain" — real pain suffered by people who have had an arm or leg amputated. Darnall has studied and treats people with "mirror therapy," which lessens or eliminates the pain by tricking the amputee's brain into believing there was no amputation. Read More >>

OHSU’s Net Worth Reaches $183 Million

At the same time, enrollment at the medical school climbed by 5.5 percent overall
October 12, 2011 – Oregon Health & Science University closed its fiscal year with an estimated net worth of $183 million – an 11 percent increase over fiscal year 2010, according to Lawrence Furnstahl, chief financial officer, who made a presentation to its board last week. Read More >>

Verdict’s Out on Whether Intensive Chemotherapy Can Cure Brain Cancer

But had it not been for the blood brain barrier disruption, which allows such drugs to penetrate into the brain, a 22-year man in Central Point might not be alive
October 5, 2011 -- Physicians remain divided about whether intensive chemotherapy for brain cancer can actually save a person’s life. But don’t tell that to Joshua Brown, 22, who lives with his family in Central Point. He might not be alive had it not been for this treatment. Read More >>

Oregon’s Mental Health Parity Law Improves Coverage at Minimal Cost

Study that appears in the American Journal of Psychiatry shows that state’s experience may presage outcomes of new federal law
September 12, 2011 – Oregon’s mental health parity law, which prohibits commercial health plans from imposing limits on mental health and substance abuse services that are not also imposed on medical-surgical services, has improved insurance coverage without substantial cost increases, according to a study led by K. John McConnell, Ph.D., a health economist at Oregon Health & Science University. Read More >>

Mistaken Governance Status Leads to Confusion and Anger

The misunderstanding is a result of OHSU changing from a state university hospital to a public corporation
August 18, 2011 -- Imagine her surprise when Golda Edwards found that she wouldn’t get her deposit back from a scheduled plastic surgery that she had canceled. Read More >>

Advocates Push for Breast Milk Bank

Donation sites increase, but the Northwest has no space to process donor milk locally
July 20, 2011 -- Oregon has the highest breastfeeding rate in the United States, with more than 55 percent of mothers choosing to breastfeed their children for six months or more, and the number of Northwest mothers who choose to donate surplus breast milk to help critically ill babies is correspondingly high. Read More >>

Thomas Aschenbrener Honored by OHSU

He joined nine other leaders who helped establish Oregon as a national leader in nursing education
May 20, 2011 – Thomas Aschenbrener, president of Northwest Health Foundation, was honored for his exceptional leadership in advocating for nursing, for supporting nursing education and for his longtime commitment to public health in Oregon by the School of Nursing at Oregon Health & Science University. Read More >>
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