Coronavirus (COVID-19

OHSU: 6; Hillsboro Medical Center: 5; OHSU Hospital and OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center hospitalization details: 8 Not Fully Vaccinated ...

- OHSUdramatically increased the region's ability to track virus variants, through new investments by federal and state public health authorities. These projections helped inform Oregon’s “Stay Home, Save Lives” efforts to reduce the spread of the virus and ensure it doesn't exceed the capacity of health systems to treat a surge of patients who required hospitalization. Over time, the goal is to drive the virus into submission by cutting off its ability to spread. - OHSU manages an unprecedented surge of critically ill patientsfrom the delta variant beginning in the summer of 2021. The lab is an example of the many collaborations that have been happening at OHSU and in the health care community. - On Feb. 1, 2022, OHSU opened a Centralized Transportation Center. Staff are available seven days a week to help schedule transportation for patients moving between buildings or discharging from the hospital and clinics. Beginning early in the pandemic, Graven modeledthe projected unchecked spread of the virus and began sharing those projections with state and local policymakers at the onset of the pandemic in Oregon in March of 2020. - To date, OHSU has completed 41,278 COVID-19 tests for 13,138 staff and students. - OHSU’s research community came together to launch an in-house COVID-19testing labon March 24, 2020. The goal is to contain the spread of the virus, including through the use of vaccines that first arrived at OHSU on Dec. 15, 2020. The university has also engaged students and trainees to vaccinate Oregonians. OHSU is collaborating to stand up vaccine clinics throughout the area to reach underserved people.