Janke testifies at Oregon Senate hearing

On September 23, 2024, IHPI member and clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine Alex Janke, M.D., M.H.S., M.Sc., testified virtually at a hearing of the Interim Committee on Health Care of the state Senate of Oregon, about emergency department boarding. 

Janke, whose research during his time as a National Clinician Scholar at IHPI included studies of emergency department wait times and boarding (waiting for admission), used data from that work and from Oregon's own public reporting sources to inform legislators about the issue. 

The agenda for the hearing is available here: Health Care Senate 2023-2024 Interim - Oregon Legislative Information System (oregonlegislature.gov) 

A recording of the entire hearing is here; Janke's testimony is first on the agenda: Oregon Legislative Video (oregonlegislature.gov) 

And his slide set is available here.