OHSU’s Hillsboro Medical Center to shutter inpatient psychiatric unit for elderly people
OHSU’s Hillsboro Medical Center to shutter inpatient psychiatric unit for elderly people The decision to close the 21-bed Hillsboro geriatric psychiatric unit will shutter a large portion of the…
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