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Add it up: Health Share looks at ways to merge health care and affordable housing

There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health Share of Oregon, like others across the state, have a manda ...

30 Jul 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe
Finding peace, inside and out

Yoga instructor draws on her own experiences to help others heal By Sue Zalokar, Staff writer You can’t control what life throws at you, but you can control how you react to it.” That was the meditation for my second community yoga class at the Old Town C ...

30 May 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Flu season hits hardest where care is hardest to find

By Alex Zielinski, Staff Writer Chills. Hot flashes. Achy muscles. Migraines. A rattling cough on top of a dry, sore throat. This time of year under the gray cloud of the Pacific Northwest, these symptoms are tossed between coworkers, family members and f ...

25 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Clinic memorial a time for joy, sadness

By Barbara Martin Contributing Columnist Old Town Clinic began as a small walk-in medical clinic on Third Avenue and Burnside, started by the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon. Now, as part of Central City Concern (since 2001), it is a fully functioning Pri ...

22 Dec 2012 - Street Roots Staff