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Downstairs Doctors

New clinic will also house nearly 50 apartments for low-income seniors

Mosaic Medical opened Conners Medical Center, its newest clinic, on Tuesday on Tuscon Way on Bend’s east side. The clinic will replace Mosaic’s former clinic across the street, and will be open to patients on Monday, Nov. 8. The facility will also be a retail pharmacy offering discounted medication in participation with the federal 340B […]

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Transforming Health Care

City Club of Central Oregon hosts a panel on the changing options for transgender people

On June 18, the City Club of Central Oregon is hosting a forum on the topic of expanding healthcare for transgender Central Oregonians. Erin Rook, diversity coordinator at Oregon State University-Cascades and co-founder of the Central Oregon Trans Health Coalition, will moderate the event, bringing in area medical professionals and other transgender experts. According to […]

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The War Wages On

Oregon will have 11 dedicated opioid treatment centers by 2019. Whereโ€”as a city, state and as a nationโ€”are we in this raging opioid epidemic?

The United States is being crippled by a growingโ€”yes, growingโ€”opioid crisis. There was a staggering 21 percent surge in drug overdoses in 2016, the last time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released official figures on record, with 64,070 deaths attributed to drug overdoses in the U.S. Of those, 75 percent were from opioids. […]

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Healthy Systems

A grassroots approach to healing communities

The field of medicine tends to attract two kinds of people—science lovers and do-gooders. The best healthcare providers are a little bit of both, and Dr. Divya Sharma has both in spades. “I really enjoyed the science of medicine,” Sharma recalls. “I specifically also really wanted to go into a field where I get to […]

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