Erin Corbett is among five Portland professionals to be profiled by Willamette Week in an article about how they "landed roles at the region’s top companies and ... tackle the new challenges facing their industries."

Oregon has the fewest hospital beds per capita in the country. Coupled with an existing health care workforce shortage and folks leaving their jobs during the pandemic, Oregon's health care system came close to the brink. John Hunter, M.D., tells KATU-TV: “Oregon has been under-bedded for some time. Not only were we kind of starting from behind, but the pandemic revealed how much there is need for a complex care in the setting of a pandemic, but generally, as the population grows and ages, more beds will be needed.”

In a story exploring why some people want to use the anti-parasitic ivermectin to treat COVID-19, Robert Hendrickson, M.D., describes the sharp increase in ivermectin toxicity cases the Oregon Poison Center has recently managed.

In a story about pandemic-related burnout worsening nursing shortages, KGW-TV notes OHSU and other hospitals have experienced an increase in nursing position vacancies, and the OHSU School of Nursing and others are increasing their academic programs to enroll more students.

Peter Graven, Ph.D., tells The Oregonian if omicron starts spreading rapidly in Oregon in December, it likely won’t have a big impact on hospitalizations until January at the earliest: "As soon as we know that we can act.”

Brian O'Roak, Ph.D., discusses the Omicron variant. O'Roak says the variant’s mutations make it relatively easy to detect: "One of Omicron’s mutations is easily flagged as it disrupts a probe used to detect COVID-19 in some standard PCR tests, including one of the tests used at OHSU. Once we see this flag in our clinical test results, we can prioritize screening those samples.”

A The New York Times interview with Bonnie Nagel, Ph.D., is cited in a HealthDay News article on the U.S. Surgeon General's report, warning of the mental health crisis hitting youth.

An article in Wine Spectator mentions the ¡Salud! Oregon Pinot Noir Auction celebrated its 30th anniversary with a live auction Nov. 13 and raised $850,000 to support vineyard worker health care. ¡Salud! partnered with the Hillsboro Medical Center to provide affordable mobile health care in nine counties throughout Willamette Valley.

Lawrence Furnstahl provides context to The Bond Buyer regarding the OHSU Hospital expansion: "The debt offering is fundamentally about borrowing $350 million for the expansion project. While we are doing that, we are taking the opportunity to refinance other debt to get lower interest rates and spread out debt service, and to make the covenants more consistent with the master trust indentures.”

Former First Tech Federal Credit Union president/CEO Thomas Sargent passed away unexpectedly on Nov. 26. Sargent's "commitment to compassionate medical care led to the development of the Tom Sargent Safety Center at OHSU’s Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland, which requests donations in his honor."