Community invited to OHSU bone marrow drive events
OHSU team of nurses, medical professionals is working to register 300 donors to support patients with blood cancers.
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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 ...
Office of Rural Health Apple A Day Campaign Reflects Health Care Debate
August 17, 2009
The "Apple A Day" campaign is built on a dollar a day contribution to train rural EMTs and assist health care providers throughout Oregon in meeting the needs of their rural communities. The need for these services is great and growing in rural ...
Nominations Sought for 2009 Oregon Rural Health Hero Award
June 05, 2009
The award will honor an outstanding person, program or organization responsible for improving the quality and availability of health care in rural communities. "There are many hard-working, dedicated people who have made a major impact on health care ...