Health Care
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and Representative Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) announced that OCHIN, Inc has received $2,001,642 from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to support OCHINS’s health information technology recruitment and training program for health clinics in underserved communities.
“Nursing is a profession that saves and changes lives, but Oregon and too many states across the country don’t have enough nurses,” Bonamici said in a statement. “There are many qualified people who want to enter this noble profession, but nursing schools don’t have enough faculty to teach them.”
“I keep hearing about turnover and lack of opportunity,” Bonamici, a Beaverton Democrat, said in a Friday interview. “There are people who are interested in pursuing a career in nursing but can’t get into programs because they don’t have enough faculty.”
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici visited Clatsop County on Tuesday, where she heard an update on the rehabiliation project at the South Jetty, learned about local food initiatives at the Astoria Food Hub and visited the Astoria Birth Center.
Students are getting ready to return to their classrooms and members of Congress are finishing up their in-district work before they head back to the U.S. Capitol.