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OHSU study documents Oregon's massive shortfall in substance use disorder services

Portland Business Journal September 30, 2022
An OHSU-PSU School of Public Health-led report provides an in-depth inventory and gap analysis of substance use disorder services that are available across the continuum of care, providing specific data on where to target interventions, treatments and recovery services throughout Oregon.

Pandemic News

Slavic Family Radio September 29, 2022
Eric Herman, M.D., provides practical tips on what people can do to protect themselves against COVID given the current state of the pandemic on a Russian-language program.

3 large hospital systems sue Oregon over alleged 'warehousing' of mental health patients

Portland Business Journal September 28, 2022
A story about Providence, Legacy and PeaceHealth alleging the Oregon Health Authority forces them to provide long-term care for civilly committed patients notes OHSU, Legacy and Kaiser Permanente jointly operate the Unity Center for Behavioral Health, which is the only psychiatric facility in the state where every patient who walks through the door receives care.

Ferritin Blood Test Information

U.S. News & World Report September 28, 2022
In an article on ferritin –- a protein that stores and releases iron and is essential for producing red blood cells -- Thomas DeLoughery, M.D., says: “Ferritin is the bricks for the warehouse of iron. A little bit of ferritin leaks out to the tissues and that’s proportional to how much iron stores you have in your body.”

Coronavirus in Oregon: Reported cases stay flat

The Oregonian September 28, 2022
OHSU’s statewide COVID-19 forecast is mentioned in a story about the current state of the pandemic and the potential for a “twin-demic” involving large numbers of COVID-19 and flu cases.
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