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This Small Oregon Town Has Hospitals So Good They Rank Among the Best in America
Most people plan a trip around a beach, a trail, or a favorite coffee stop, not a hospital. Yet in one corner of Oregon, the medical care is part of the local story, and it sits right beside rivers, bridges, and a mountain view. Families here talk about doctors the way other towns talk about their high school team.
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Salem and Keizer Senior Centers: Activities After 50
The Salem and Keizer area is fortunate to have three centers that serve people over 50, or who identify as seniors. Membership is affordable, and most extra events and services charge only a nominal fee. Whether you want to learn to work with rocks and gems in the lapidary room at the Center 50+, dance to a live band on weekends at the Keizer Salem Area Senior Center or join a weekly Chinese dance class at the South Salem Senior Center, there’s an activity for you.
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Looking For A New Family Physician? Your Choice Could Hinge On Insurance
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, Oct. 29, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Kristin Kuhns thought she’d planned out her upcoming year’s medical coverage as well as could be done. Kuhns had chosen her Medicare options and had decided which new doctor she wanted based on recommendations from family...
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Looking For A New Family Physician? Your Choice Could Hinge On Insurance
THURSDAY, Oct. 29, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Kristin Kuhns thought she’d planned out her upcoming year’s medical coverage as well as could be done. Kuhns had chosen her Medicare options and had decided which new doctor she wanted based on recommendations from family and friends. “I’d heard that they were very attentive, and that they were doing more than the minimum for their patients,” said Kuhns, 69, an artist instructor living in Salem, Oregon. Just one problem – the doctor she wanted wasn’t taking new Medicare patients. The doctor’s clinic “had a number that new patients called, and it was like there was a guy who was a gatekeeper,” Kuhns said. “It seemed like if you had the special code word, you might get a different response, but if you didn’t it was the same answer every time – no, they’re not taking anyone.” Kuhns wound up waiting until her insurance went into effect Jan. 1, then participating in a mad dash to find a new doc. This is a problem more Americans are facing, regardless of the type of insurance they have, experts say. The United States has a growing shortfall of physicians, with 40,400 to 70,600 additional family
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DEQ says chemical leak killed multiple fish in Portland creek
An industrial chemical leak killed multiple fish in Portland’s Johnson Creek in late September, Oregon environmental regulators have concluded. The spill left a 2-mile stretch of dead fish along the southeast Portland creek. On Friday, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality notified Precision Castparts Corp. that it had committed...