Doernbecher, Legacy Health’s Randall Children’s Hospital and Providence St. Vincent Medical Center have implemented crisis standards of care.

On Dec. 7, Carlson also joined an emergency medicine physician from Umatilla County on an episode of OPB’s Think Out Loud.

OHSU issues statement of appreciation in response to Gov. Brown extending a state of emergency as a surge of respiratory illnesses in adults and children strains hospitals; additionally, at a hearing of the House Interim Committee on Health Care, Dana Braner, M.D., says of the surge in RSV cases: “It literally constitutes the greatest threat to children’s health in our state that we have seen in the last 30 years.”

OHSU issues statement of appreciation in response to Gov. Brown extending a state of emergency as a surge of respiratory illnesses in adults and children strains hospitals; additionally, at a hearing of the House Interim Committee on Health Care, Dana Braner, M.D., says of the surge in RSV cases: “It literally constitutes the greatest threat to children’s health in our state that we have seen in the last 30 years.”

OHSU, Legacy, Providence and Kaiser Permanente implement crisis standards of care for adults.

“OHSU understands and fully embraces the responsibility to provide compassionate, quality care that comes with the privilege of working with animal models. We believe that the education and experience surgical trainees gain through the use of relevant animal models are essential to ensuring future surgeons have the knowledge and skills necessary to provide safe, high-quality care. Our views on this topic reflect those of other surgical training programs around the world. OHSU only uses animal models in its surgical training program when nonanimal methods are inadequate or too dangerous for human participants. We look forward to a time when surgical training methods are capable of faithfully modeling the complexity of a living system; however, technology currently does not exist to recreate some of the most complex procedures surgeons must regularly perform in humans, such as managing critical internal complications. OHSU continually monitors and evaluates alternatives to using animal models in our surgical training and is committed to adopting these techniques as soon as their effectiveness is demonstrated.”

OHSU’s vice president of public affairs, Abby Tibbs, will lead work on incoming governor Tina Kotek's proposal for the 2023-2025 state budget.

Modeling from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) predicts that RSV cases likely already peaked in mid-November, at around 142 hospital admissions per week, over half of which were pediatric cases. Modeling predicts that cases will remain high through early December before declining more significantly in January and February.

Local news outlets continue to report on the unprecedented demand for emergency care following Thanksgiving.

In an op-ed published by The Oregonian, Dana Braner, M.D., and Ben Hoffman, M.D., urge Oregon parents and families to do their part to avoid overwhelming Oregon’s already strained health care system.