In an article about how to lift the spirit of someone in the hospital through small gestures, Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, Ph.D., M.B.A., RN, says if you have family that live elsewhere, arrange a chain of phone visits: “You can say, ‘Uncle Fred is going to call you at 2, and your cousin Mary is going to call you at 3.'"

The proposed OHSU-Legacy integration is mentioned.

“Legacy Health has informed OHSU of this transaction as part of the due diligence process,” said Alice Cuprill-Comas, OHSU’s general counsel. “Since the Aug. 16 announcement, leaders from both organizations have been meeting regularly and sharing information. Until a definitive agreement is reached, both organizations continue to operate independently.”

OHSU's status as the only certified registered nurse anesthetist school in Oregon is mentioned in a Nurse.org article.

KGW-TV interviews an OHSU patient who is the first person in the world to receive a brain implant to effectively controls two conditions: epileptic seizures and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Her surgeon, Ahmed Raslan, M.D., says: "It's pretty miraculous, to be honest with you, that we ended up where we are."

Research led by Jonathan Pruneda, Ph.D., details the steps taken to create a form of the common protein ubiquitin that has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and breast cancer. Pruneda says this finding is “an important first step,” adding: “We’ll use this knowledge as a foundation or future research including exploring how bacterial take advantage of ubiquitin while infecting cells.”

Research led by Jonathan Pruneda, Ph.D., details the steps taken to create a form of the common protein ubiquitin that has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and breast cancer. Pruneda says this finding is “an important first step,” adding: “We’ll use this knowledge as a foundation or future research including exploring how bacterial take advantage of ubiquitin while infecting cells.”

Research led by Jonathan Pruneda, Ph.D., details the steps taken to create a form of the common protein ubiquitin that has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and breast cancer. Pruneda says this finding is “an important first step,” adding: “We’ll use this knowledge as a foundation or future research including exploring how bacterial take advantage of ubiquitin while infecting cells.”

Legacy employees unionizing.

OPB publishes a documentary about the world’s first successful heart valve replacement surgery performed in 1960 at what’s now OHSU, featuring surgeon Albert Starr, M.D., and engineer Lowell Edwards.