The Breaking Point, Part 1 KDRV.com, Nov. 8, 2015 In the middle of creating Divine Lunacy, Peter Quince found out his son was schizophrenic. A surprising turn of events because the musical comedy is about mental illness and because Peter says he had no warning. “He seemed like the most well-adjusted easy going person on […]
Statesman Journal, June 24, 2015 Oregon’s health care transformation efforts continued to make improvements in 2014, even while gaining nearly 400,000 members in the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program. The Oregon Health Authority on Wednesday released quality metrics and reward-payments data for the state’s 16 coordinated care organizations. DOWNLOAD – “Oregon’s Health System […]
MedicineNet.com, June 3, 2015 Nearly 30 percent of Americans have a problem with alcohol at some point in their lives, ranging from binge drinking to full-blown alcoholism, but less than 20 percent are ever treated, a new study found. Alcohol use disorders are among the most common mental health problems worldwide and result in disability, […]
KOBI-5.com, Oct. 6, 2014 The number of patients in Jackson County with health insurance skyrocketed after the Affordable Care Act leaving clinics and doctors scrambling to figure out how to better serve patients. It’s been nine months since the Affordable Care Act went into effect and since then more than 380,000 Oregonians have enrolled in […]
Mail Tribune, Oct. 5, 2014 Kathy Randle was working as a nurse when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system, often leading to disability. The disease ended her nursing career.”I was staying at home and got more and more depressed and I tried to […]
Bend Bulletin, June 26, 2014 In 2013, Oregon Health Plan patients went to the emergency room less often and were more satisfied with the care they received than in 2011, according to a quarterly report released Tuesday. This was the first report to show a full year of data since the state launched its massive […]
The Oregonian, April 2, 2014 A congressional committee wants to know whether Cover Oregon took adequate measures to protect personal information before trying to go live six months ago. California Republican Darrell Issa, head of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has demanded a wide-ranging array of documents including security reports and correspondence […]
From AP.com, March 27, 2014 Two mental health programs in Douglas County are being turned over to an alliance of health care providers established by the state. The Roseburg News-Review reports (http://is.gd/dfVZS6 ) the two programs employ more than 100 county employees. Most of the workers will be offered positions through the new Umpqua Health […]
TDN.com, Feb. 17, 2014 As millions of Americans gain health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, experts say their higher rates of mental health and substance abuse disorders will be difficult to treat due to a lack of counselors and behavioral therapists who accept Medicaid patients. In the District of Columbia and the […]
From KATU.com, Jan. 10, 2014 As the state launches a new independent investigation into the failure of the Cover Oregon website, keep one thing in mind. It’s been done before. Exhaustively. KATU’s Investigators spent weeks digging through thousands of pages of audits conducted by Maximus, the company the state hired to provide quality-control assessments of […]
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