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UnityPoint Health-Jones Regional Medical Center is a 22-bed critical access hospital in Anamosa, Iowa. It averages about seven inpatients a night and provides emergency services to the small community northeast of Cedar Rapids.
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Nicolle Baird, a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fellow, works on a real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis to better understand mpox at a laboratory in Ghana in 2022. U.S. public health officials are encouraging those at risk of mpox infection to get vaccinated as cases rise in several states compared with last year.
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Nurses represented by the Washington State Nurses Association picket outside PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver on April 18, 2024. The picket came during difficult contract negotiations between the nurses and hospital management.
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Oregon Health & Science University primarily trains its OB/GYN residents at OHSU Hospital and the Center for Women’s Health in southwest Portland.
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Gov. Tina Kotek speaks to reporters at a press event in April 2023 in Salem.
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Penny Webber (right) is one of the first three students at Forest Grove High School to receive her medical assistant certification. As a 12th grader, she was hired on at Mountain View Medical Center.
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