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Portland Cardiologist Selected as OMA Doctor-Citizen of the Year

April 20, 2013 -- Dr. John McAnulty, a Portland cardiologist, was named the Oregon Medical Association’s 2013 Doctor Citizen of the Year at the Association’s 139th annual meeting in Portland. This year, the annual award honors a physician who has made outstanding contributions to his community, the practice of medicine, and health care policy in our state. Read More >>

Eugene Family Physician Selected As President-Elect of Oregon Medical Association

 
April 20 -- Dr. Sylvia Emory, a Eugene family physician, was installed Saturday as the 2013 President-Elect of the Oregon Medical Association at the OMA’s Annual Meeting at the Nines hotel in downtown Portland. 
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Portland Cardiologist Selected as OMA Doctor-Citizen of the Year

April 20 -- Dr. John McAnulty, a Portland cardiologist, was named the Oregon Medical Association’s 2013 Doctor Citizen of the Year at the Association’s 139th annual meeting in Portland. This year, the annual award honors a physician who has made outstanding contributions to his community, the practice of medicine, and health care policy in our state. Read More >>

Kaiser's Periodontal Hygienists Targeted For Elimination

Untold Impact on Quality Patient Care
  April 23, 2013 — Kaiser Permanente’s Vice President of Dental Services, Dr. Kenneth Wright, has announced his intent to eliminate Periodontal Hygienists within the Kaiser dental system. Periodontal Hygienists are the professionals who work in conjunction with Periodontists to provide treatment of advanced gum disease to some of our population’s most at-risk patients. Read More >>

OHSU School of Dentistry Announces New Dean

April 23, 2013 – Following a national search, dentist and immunologist Phillip T. Marucha, D.M.D., Ph.D., has been named dean of Oregon Health & Science University'sSchool of Dentistry. Marucha is expected to join OHSU in September. Read More >>

Freelancers CO-OP of Oregon Receives State Licensure; Announces Name Change; New Staff

 
April 22, 2013-- Freelancers CO-OP of Oregon has received a Certificate of Authority from the Oregon Insurance Division and is now a licensed health care services contractor, able to offer affordable, quality health insurance, both on and off the Cover Oregon health insurance exchange.
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Children First for Oregon Releases Annual Report on Status of Children and Families

Despite signs of economic recovery, more Oregon children in poverty
<p><strong>April 23, 2013 &ndash;</strong>&nbsp;Research released today by nonprofit advocacy organization Children First for Oregon reveals that despite signs of a soft economic recovery, there were more Oregon children living in poverty in 2011 (23.4%) than in the previous two years. In total, 44.2% of Oregon&rsquo;s children were either poor or low-income in 2011.</p> Read More >>

Naturopathic Care Now Available at ZoomCare Clinics

Naturopathic care coming to Hawthorne and Alberta clinics starting April 22
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St. Charles Health System to Build New Health Care Campus in Prineville

  April 20, 2013 — The St. Charles Health System Board of Directors approved today the construction of a new health care campus in Prineville that will include inpatient beds, an emergency department, surgical suites, imaging services, laboratory services, physician clinic space and more. Read More >>

Outpatients, Hospital Patients Face Different Problems with Antibiotic Resistance

  April 20, 2013 – A new study concludes that problems with antibiotic resistance faced by outpatients may be as bad as those in hospitalized patients, and that more studies of outpatients are needed – both to protect their health and to avoid inappropriate or unnecessary drug use.  Read More >>
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