Two Salem Health nurses won awards for “nurse of the year” during a March of Dimes ceremony last week (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Two Salem nurses were acknowledged for excellence during the annual March of Dimes Nurse of the Year awards recently in Portland. Salem Health’s Kelly Honyak and[Read More…]

Dentist Brian Westover and dental assistant Steven Sadaya care for a Scott Elementary School student in the Tooth Taxi. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Dentist Brian Westover leaned over a reclined chair. “I’m just gonna make your tooth go to sleep, buddy,” he explained to his young patient, a second-grade student at[Read More…]

Salem Hospital (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) After years of double-digit hikes in health insurance premiums, Oregonians will likely see an average increase of about 3 percent for individual plans for 2020, a sign state officials said shows the insurance market is stabilizing. Small group plans, which cover about 17,000[Read More…]

Salem Hospital could be out-of-network for Regence members starting in July if a deal isn’t reached between the health system and insurer. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) A contract dispute between Salem’s largest health care provider and a major insurer that could raise prices for thousands in Marion and Polk[Read More…]

Salem Hospital (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Measles has been confirmed in a Marion County resident, county health officials announced Tuesday. The patient is from Salem and is unvaccinated for measles, said Katrina Rothenberger, the county’s public health director. Rothenberger said the county was not releasing the patient’s age or[Read More…]

Two weeks after a traveler contagious with measles visited several locations in Salem, there are no local suspected cases of the disease, health officials say. The Marion County Health Department is continuing to investigate after a contagious person from Illinois visited three Salem locations and Portland International Airport in late[Read More…]

A person contagious with measles visited multiple locations in Salem from Feb. 18 to 22, local health officials said Friday. The Marion County Health Department is working with Oregon Health Authority to notify people who may have been exposed. Most Oregonians are vaccinated against measles and are not at risk[Read More…]

Update: Lab tests indicated a suspected measles case was not measles, the Marion County Health Department said Saturday afternoon. Original story below: Health officials in Salem are monitoring a suspected measles case, the Marion County Health Department said Saturday. It’s currently unknown whether the suspected case is connected to the[Read More…]

Salem Hospital began asking patients about measles exposure last week due to an ongoing outbreak in the Vancouver area. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Salem health officials are urging people to make sure they’re vaccinated against measles due to an ongoing outbreak in the Portland and Vancouver area that has[Read More…]