Health care for region’s vulnerable populations going to new manager

Offices for Willamette Valley Community Health, which oversaw health care for low-income people in the region. The board underwent a schism last year. (Jessica Floum/The Lund Report)

Nearly a year ago, an email landed in Craig Pope’s inbox that would quietly destabilize the order that oversaw health care for about 100,000 people in the mid-Willamette Valley.

It was a Friday afternoon in mid-August. The email alerted the Polk County commissioner that a little-known governing body…

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