Northwest Human Services balances optimism, realism while preparing for influx of Medicaid patients

Everyone can get primary care, mental health care and dental care at Northwest Human Services, regardless of what insurance they have or their ability to pay.

That meant that when news broke that thousands of Medicaid patients in Salem would soon need a new place to get health care in Salem, the question wasn’t whether the primary care provider would accept them. The question was how they’d help as many people as possible. 

Northwest Human…