The regional arm of Planned Parenthood and its advocacy partner are adapting, and the women who head these organizations discuss how As jobless claims in Oregon climbed, newly unemployed individuals across the state sought out health care providers that s ...
28 May 2020 - Anna Pedersen
The state’s guidelines for a crisis such as COVID-19 lack a commitment not to withhold care from people with disabilities, according to a federal complaint Oregon’s crisis health care guidelines leave room for discrimination against people with disabiliti ...
14 May 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
The government's response to COVID-19 could give Americans a taste of ‘socialized medicine' and lift critics' fears, says Stephanie Nakajima of Healthcare-NOW For all the tragedy wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, Stephanie Nakajima wishe ...
5 May 2020 - Tom Henderson
COMMENTARY | Despite more than a century of opportunities to change, Oregon’s response to COVID-19 is all too similar to that of the tuberculosis scourge “And does Oregon take rank in this work? Is our state caring for the homeless, friendless and pennile ...
23 Apr 2020 - Doug Kenck-Crispin
The Multnomah County commissioner is concerned about how pandemic-related stress is affecting medically vulnerable people and health care workers Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran remembers serving on the front lines of a pandemic, working as a ...
25 Mar 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
COMMENTARY | Many seniors can’t afford an unexpected health crisis This week, Oregon’s governor followed Washington and California in declaring a state of emergency, allowing the Oregon Health Authority to deploy additional staff and resources to respond ...
13 Mar 2020 - Marisa Espinoza
DIRECTOR'S DESK | Accustomed to getting the news out, they are becoming the media in a new way — by word of mouth Street Roots vendors are hitting the trails to deliver accurate information about COVID-19 to other unhoused people. Accustomed to getti ...
12 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR'S DESK | It's all-hands-on-deck when it comes to hygiene support We’re not helpless out here,” Raven Drake told me, standing in front of an eight-person tent that, she explained, would serve as a medical tent should any people in neighb ...
6 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand
COMMENTARY | We won't go back. Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette is expanding health care despite threats to Roe v. Wade. On March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a huge case that could dismantle the protections of Roe v. Wade ...
6 Mar 2020 - Anne Udall
COMMENTARY | Today, it’s Trump’s ban on immigrants who need assistance, but medical injustice for people of color has roots 155 years deep On Jan. 27, the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 to approve the Trump administration’s “public charge” law, als ...
7 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill