OHSU Casey Eye Institute opens student-led clinic serving downtown, Portland-metro area
New clinic will provide low-barrier ophthalmology services to community members in need.
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OHSU Fertility Consultants Host Open House
February 24, 2010
WHAT: People with fertility issues have much to consider and a lot of information to sift through. Oregon Health & Science University fertility experts, with breakthrough research in this area and the most advanced medical treatments available in the ...
OHSU Opens Electric Car Charging Station for Visitors, Patients, Employees Who Want to Go Green
February 23, 2010
Oregon Health & Science University has installed its first electric car charging station, allowing patients, visitors and staff to recharge their green vehicles while at OHSU. The charging station is located on the fifth floor of the large parking ...
Oregon Office of Rural Health Receives Federal Grant to Help Rural Providers
February 23, 2010
The Oregon Office of Rural Health at Oregon Health & Science University has received a grant from the National Health Service Corp (NHSC) to help primary care providers in rural and underserved urban areas repay their loans. The NHSC grant provides ...
Independent Analysis Shows OHSU Contributes Nearly $4 Billion and 35,000 Jobs Annually to Oregon's Economy
February 22, 2010
Oregon Health & Science University’s economic impact on Portland and Oregon has grown to $4 billion a year, according to an analysis commissioned by OHSU and completed recently by ECONorthwest. The analysis also shows that OHSU’s presence provides ...
RecycleMania Week 5: Hard Plastic
February 12, 2010
Each week during the RecycleMania event, we will focus on a single type of material that we recycle OHSU. For our fourth week we will be focusing on hard plastic. Hard plastic is not just bottles. You can also recycle clam shells and yogurt containers ...
Oregonians Submit 10,000 POLST Forms to Registry
February 11, 2010
Within two months of its statewide launch, Oregon’s new POLST Registry - the latest expansion of Oregon’s highly successful Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Program - is in full operation. The registry has received nearly 10,000 POLST ...
OHSU statement on Court of Appeals decision
February 10, 2010
OHSU respects the work of the Oregon Court of Appeals, but disagrees with its ruling in the Ackerman case and will appeal this decision to the Oregon Supreme Court. The ruling has implications for OHSU and for all public bodies. It is important to ...
OHSU’s Brian Druker Receives 2010 Portland First Citizen Award
February 04, 2010
The Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors® (PMAR) honored Brian Druker, M.D., director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research at Oregon Health & Science University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...
State audit of OHSU research expansion finds program successfully 'met or exceeds' goals
January 21, 2010
According to an audit report issued today by the Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Health & Science University’s Oregon Opportunity research expansion project successfully met or exceeded its goals and measurable targets. These goals included job ...
OHSU nursing leaders to take bus tour of western and southern Oregon, with stops in Corvallis, Ashland and Klamath Falls
October 12, 2009
WHO: OHSU's School of Nursing Dean Michael Bleich, Ph.D., plus three top nurse scholars and teachers at the school (Judith Baggs, Ph.D., an international expert on the ICU; Theresa Harvath, Ph.D., president of the John A. Hartford, Inc. Center for ...