A roundup of opportunities and healthcare career resources added to the Health Hires job board in the last week, including an exciting internship opportunity with the Oregon School-Based Health Alliance.
The national data compiled by CMS from 2013 found that Oregon’s physicians and teaching hospitals were paid $9.65 million dollars from 348 pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers.
A workgroup last week moved toward consensus on the easier lifts -- including putting caps on overtime for some workers and the amount of time that can be claimed for travel. But the state is uniquely impacted by a Department of Labor decision that it must pay overtime by its dependence on live-in caregivers compared to other states, and no solution has yet arisen that will fairly compensate caregivers while not driving up costs to the program.
The author, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, suggests that Breast Cancer Awareness Month merely not only belittles what people actually go through, but is a big cash cow.
The Cover Oregon board voted to cancel its November meeting and appears ready to hand over the keys to the insurance exchange to legislators, who have vowed to fold the remaining state insurance exchange functions into the Insurance Division or the Oregon Health Authority.
Currently, 25 percent of the Oregon State Hospital beds are taken up by people who have been charged with a crime but determined unfit to stand trial without mental health treatment. But many of these people are not a danger to themselves and others and might get better treatment closer to home. Meanwhile, hospital beds are unavailable for other people in more need of acute intensive psychiatric care.
