The Portland Business Journal covers a new finding that a Medicaid requirement to cover mental and physical health together did not lead to significant changes in access or quality of health services in the state of Washington. “There was a hope that this would be a significant catalyst,” John McConnell, Ph.D., says. “The idea was that integrating care within managed care organizations would drive positive changes at the clinical level, and that didn’t really happen — at least not yet.”

While discussing his research, which found Medicaid coverage of behavioral health care did not lead to significant changes in access or quality of health services in Washington, John McConnell, Ph.D., says “The idea was that integrating care within management care organizations would drive positive changes at the clinical level, and that didn’t really happen – at least not yet.”

Oregon Tech announces that AMR Northwest, a provider of emergency medical services in the Portland-metro region, is providing scholarships to all current paramedic students entering an externship in the Oregon Tech/OHSU paramedic program at the Wilsonville campus.

Willamette Week writes about a patient's Medicare benefit not fully covering the cost of a pneumonia vaccine.

OHSU and PSU are among 15 Oregon organizations named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Divesity in 2024.

The Portland Business Journal covers a new finding that a Medicaid requirement to cover mental and physical health together did not lead to significant changes in access or quality of health services in the state of Washington. “There was a hope that this would be a significant catalyst,” John McConnell, Ph.D., says. “The idea was that integrating care within managed care organizations would drive positive changes at the clinical level, and that didn’t really happen — at least not yet.”

OHSU is leading national research efforts to determine the role that respectful maternal care plays in improving the worsening health outcomes for people in the U.S. who are pregnant and postpartum. Study author Amy Cantor, M.D., says, “We are facing a growing maternal health crisis in this country, especially among Black women, with racism and implicit bias from care providers being a significant contributing factor.”

Representatives of OHSU and Planned Parenthood joined U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden to decry efforts to limit access to the FDA-approved abortion medication mifepristone.

Representatives of OHSU and Planned Parenthood joined U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden to decry efforts to limit access to the FDA-approved abortion medication mifepristone.

Dr. Pooja Kotadia and Rounak “Ron” Gandhi, who live in Portland, welcomed their first child, a baby girl, at OHSU.