Health Care
Information regarding my stance on Health Care issues.
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici told KGW, "In December I urged Providence & the Oregon Nurses Association to come together in good faith and negotiate a fair contract that provides competitive wages & safe staffing levels so nurses & other frontline health care workers can provide the high-quality patient care Ore
Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) added that this facility – which has been in development since 2019 – is important because many people have to travel to other areas of the state to access these services.
“Solving our most complicated and challenging concerns here in Washington County, as well as in our country — that’s going to take all of us working together, the federal delegation, state, local and community partners,” U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici said.
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.”