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Med Students, Rural Providers Continue to Question Future of Rural Clerkships

Students are circulating a petition asking OHSU to keep rural clerkships, but the administration says the program will expand, not contract
April 23, 2013 – Medical students at Oregon Health & Science University are circulating an online petition asking the school to keep the five-week rural clerkship that has been a required part of OHSU's medical curriculum since 1994 – but the university's administration maintains it doesn't intend to reduce or eliminate the clerkships, and in fact plans to offer more rural clerkships. Read More >>

Dr. Howard Frumkin Urges Medical, Nursing Students to Consider Human Habitats

During a keynote address at the 10th annual Western Regional International Health Conference, he stressed the need to build healthier cities
April 10, 2013 -- Dr. Howard Frumkin, MPH, opened his address to a crowd of 300, most of them medical and nursing students, assembled last week at the Portland Art Museum, to imagine that they were zookeepers anticipating a new shipment of frogs or butterflies. The first priority, he explained, would be to create the right habitat for those animals before they showed up. Read More >>

Hospital Finances: A Look at OHSU, Kaiser, Adventist and Tuality

All of Kaiser's hospitals walked away with the highest profit margin in 2011 followed by OHSU Hospital and Adventist Medical Center, while Tuality Community Hospital ended up in the red
April 5, 2013 -- This story is the fourth in a series that is examining the state of Oregon hospitals. Today, the Lund Report looks at OHSU Hospital, Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center, Adventist Medical and Tuality Community Hospital. Read More >>

Tanning Lobby Wins Concessions on Teen Tan Ban

Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, D-Gresham, favors limiting the ban to 17, over the objections of the Knight Cancer Institute that 17-year-olds are most at-risk of developing melanoma from tanning beds
  April 5, 2013 -- The tanning lobby won a major concession today in the Senate Health Committee, which voted to scale back a ban on carcinogenic tanning beds for minors.
 
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Family Providers Question Potential Changes to OHSU's Rural Curriculum

The school is expanding its rural clerkships, with many new positions in specialty practices
April 1, 2013 – While Oregon Health & Sciences University is pushing for free tuition to students who choose to serve in underserved areas – including rural Oregon – it's also revising its curriculum in ways some doctors fear will affect rural rotations, also called clerkships. Read More >>

Despite Sequestration Cuts, OHSU Over Budget

Academic operations are running a $6 million deficit, but increased use of hospital services is covering the gap
  March 22, 2013 – The effect of federal sequestration can already be felt on Marquam Hill. When the board of directors at Oregon Health & Sciences University met Thursday afternoon, chief financial officer Lawrence Furnstahl said federal spending cuts will cause the state's only academic medical center to lose somewhere between $30 to $35 million per year. About $7 million of that, he said, is the result of a 2 percent cut to Medicare spending, and another $23 to $28 million will be lost due to cuts to the National Institutes of Health and other federal programs. Read More >>

Oregon Poison Center warns that synthetic pot poses emerging public health concern in the Northwest

February 15, 2013 ­– Several states across the nation have reported cases of acute kidney injury linked with the growing use of a designer drug sold openly online and in some tobacco and convenience stores; five cases were reported in Oregon in the past year. According to an article published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), synthetic cannabinoids, a chemically altered drug made to mimic the mind-altering affects of marijuana when smoked, may contain compounds that can severely harm the kidneys. Read More >>

OHSU Intends to Track Effectiveness of CCOs

The work will be done by John McConnell, PhD, who now heads the Center for Health Systems Effectiveness
December 19, 2012 – The newly created Center for Health Systems Effectiveness at Oregon Health & Science University intends to measure the effectiveness of coordinated care organizations under the leadership of John McConnell, PhD, who made a presentation at OHSU’s board meeting last week. Read More >>

$250,000 Awarded to 2012 TYLENOL® Future Care Scholars

The Makers of TYLENOL® Announce 40 Scholarship Recipients in 22nd Annual Year of Supporting Students Pursuing Variety of Healthcare Related Degrees
Ft. Washington, PA, September 5, 2012 – McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., the makers of TYLENOL®, announces recipients of the 22nd annual TYLENOL® Future Care Scholarship. The 2012 program awards $250,000 in scholarship funds to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing careers in healthcare. Winners are named TYLENOL® Future Care Scholars and receive awards of $5,000 or $10,000 to help manage the rising cost of education. Read More >>

OHSU Reports $80 Million in Operating Income

Last week's unaudited financial report puts the university $23 million over budget, partly due to a $9 million settlement from the IRS
September 18, 2012 -- Budget projections for fiscal year 2012 at Oregon Health & Science University called for maintaining earnings at $57 million – and so far the institution has exceeded that goal, according to a financial report presented to its board of directors last week. Read More >>
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