Oregon’s new health networks are partnering with dental programs to bring better oral care to low-income families Despite the controversy and questions surrounding the new health care law, one concrete benefit is giving many of Oregon’s most vulnerable pe ...
4 Nov 2013 - Jasmine Rockow
There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health Share of Oregon, like others across the state, have a manda ...
30 Jul 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe
Yoga instructor draws on her own experiences to help others heal By Sue Zalokar, Staff writer You can’t control what life throws at you, but you can control how you react to it.” That was the meditation for my second community yoga class at the Old Town C ...
30 May 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Central City Concern staffers design a new bed bug-resistant bed with nationwide appeal By Jake Thomas, Staff Writer Richard Klosterman had heard about them. The lady across the hallway from his apartment had them. And then he had them. Several years ago, ...
22 May 2013 - Jake Thomas
How Oregonians are eating the social and economic cost of bad oral health By Alex Zielinski, Staff writer Sitting in a reclining chair in Multnomah County’s newest dental clinic for the first time, Kenneth can’t help but smile. Despite his crooked, gapped ...
27 Mar 2013 - Alex Zielinski
Three Boxes: Revisiting David P. Hooper By Kathy Pape A few years ago, working for Central City Concern, I was asked to “sort through those three Hooper boxes” in the basement. Just keep the important stuff. “Hooper” is of course David P. Hooper and many ...
8 Sep 2012 - Street Roots
Just what the legislature ordered: Oregon races the clock to restructure its low-income health care system By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Autumn Bolds begins the day’s huddle by telling Dr. Rachel Solotaroff, the medical director of Central City Concer ...
27 Oct 2011 - Street Roots
All in their head: Traumatic brain injuries often go undiagnosed, especially on the streets By Kate Cox, Contributing Writer Readers note: This article is the first part in an investigative series by Street Roots on Traumatic Brain Injury and homelessness ...
9 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Canada and the U.S. are making significant strides toward mainstreaming harm reduction, but there are still walls to knock down By Katie Hyslop with Devan Schwartz, Contributing Writers Hundreds of doctors, politicians, researchers and frontline workers w ...
22 Dec 2010 - Street Roots
Times up at the West with less than a month left to find housing [caption id="attachment_4329" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="West Hotel on NW 6th between Davis and Couch"] [/caption] By Amanda Waldroupe, St ...
17 Nov 2010 - Street Roots