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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017
Center: Hospital expects to more than
double its staff by the end of 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Trump asks Supreme Court
to reinstate travel ban
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has asked
the Supreme Court to immediately reinstate its ban on travel-
ers from six mostly Muslim countries, saying the U.S. will be
safer if the policy is put in place.
The Justice Department fi ling to
the high court late Thursday argued
that the federal appeals court in Rich-
mond, Virginia, made several mis-
takes in ruling against the Trump travel
policy.
Immigration offi cials would have
90 days to decide what changes are
necessary before people from Iran,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and
Yemen may resume applying for visas.
It takes a majority of the court, at
President
least fi ve justices, to put the policy into
Donald Trump
effect.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the
national security concerns an after-the-fact justifi cation
for a policy that was “rooted in religious animus and intended
to bar Muslims from this country.” The appeals court
ruled against reinstating the travel policy by a 10-3 vote last
week.
The Justice Department is “confi dent that President
Trump’s executive order is well within his lawful author-
ity to keep the nation safe and protect our communities from
terrorism,” spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said. “The presi-
dent is not required to admit people from countries that spon-
sor or shelter terrorism, until he determines that they can be
properly vetted and do not pose a security risk to the United
States.”
$8.2 billion education proposal
moves forward in Legislature
SALEM — An $8.2 billion proposal to fund
Oregon’s K-12 education system cleared its fi rst hurdle
in Salem on Thursday — the biggest school budget to-date
and the state’s single-largest obligation for the 2017-19
budget.
The funding fi gure represents the state’s share of the K-12
budget, known as the State School Fund, the biggest source of
school district funding that comes directly from state house-
hold, business and property taxes.
As lawmakers are in a gridlock over how to close an
upcoming $1.4 billion shortfall that jeopardizes health care
for 350,000 Medicaid expansion recipients, this week’s edu-
cation funding proposal is a 9 percent overall jump, or a
$830 million increase, from the current budget schools are
working with today, although the fi nal numbers are subject
to change.
Still, some of the state’s 197 school districts say they need
at least another $200 million to avoid teacher layoffs and other
cuts. Even then, educators say Oregon schools are still under-
funded by about $2 billion per biennium — a fi gure derived
from the so-called Quality Education Model, or QEM, which
is the state’s metric for determining what’s “adequate and
equitable” school funding.
particle accelerator from
Swedish radiotherapy equip-
ment manufacturer Elekta used
at the Knight Cancer Insti-
tute. The accelerator directs a
beam of radiation at a patient’s
tumor during treatment to irra-
diate cancerous tumors.
“It has to be perfectly
level,” Laman said. “The
machine has to know the beam
is going exactly to the right
spot.”
The walls of the chamber
around the accelerator are 3
1/2 -feet thick on the bottom
and sides, and 7 1/2 -feet thick
on top. Keeping the concrete
and the 28,000-pound accel-
erator level are 280 aggregate
stone piers dug into the ground
underneath.
The linear accelerator,
being shipped across the Atlan-
tic Ocean, through the Panama
Canal and up to Los Angeles,
will then be trucked up the
West Coast in boxes, deliv-
ered to the building in early
July to be assembled, installed,
tested and certifi ed over a 2
1/2 -month period. Laman said
the accelerator will likely be
ready for use in early Octo-
ber, shortly before the build-
ing’s expected grand opening
Oct. 12. Parts of the center will
open to patients in September.
Infusion center
In 2008, Sangkun “Sonny”
Park reached out about bring-
ing cancer treatment services
to Astoria. In 2010, the hos-
pital partnered with OHSU to
create a cancer care clinic, tem-
porarily in the CMH Health
& Wellness Pavilion. After a
$300,000 grant from the Asto-
ria Development Commis-
sion for renovations, the can-
cer center moved into the Park
Medical Building, where it
provides 2,500 infusion and
chemotherapy visits per year,
expected to increase to 3,000
at the new center.
Patients receiving infusions
will face a bank of windows on
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Work continues on the Knight Cancer Collaborative, including walls of concrete up to
7 1/2 feet thick. Stone piers will keep the concrete and 28,000-pound accelerator level.
the second fl oor with expan-
sive views of the Columbia
River. But some infusions can
last six to seven hours, Laman
said, meaning the hospital
needed chairs that patients
would like to be in for long
periods. The hospital had gen-
eral contractor P&C Construc-
tion build a mock-up of the
infusion center in Fort George
Brewery’s Lovell Showroom
and invited three chair ven-
dors to bring their models
to be tested and voted on by
patients, staff and others from
the community .
Support services
“Over the last few years,
there’s been more and more
research showing that it’s not
just the chemotherapy or the
radiation that really gets the
patient through this process,”
Laman said. “It’s sort of a mul-
tidisciplinary team that takes
care of the patient.”
In addition to exam, pos-
itron emission tomography
and CT scanning on the fi rst
fl oor, the hospital will pro-
vide a fi nancial planner to take
patients through the fi nancing
of cancer treatment. The hos-
pital will also offer support
groups and counselors; beau-
ticians to help with cosmetics,
shaving and hair care during
treatment; a yoga instructor;
a massage therapist, acupunc-
turist and a naturopath to help
deal with side affects of treat-
ment naturally; and a patient
resource center for wigs,
prosthetics and other prod-
ucts for people going through
treatment.
The hospital expects to
more than double its staff
from 17 now to 37 by the
end of 2018 at the new build-
ing. OHSU, which provides
the region’s only oncologist
for diagnoses and prescrib-
ing treatment, will provide an
additional medical oncolo-
gist and a radiation oncologist,
opening more appointments
for patients. OHSU will also
link the local doctors with fur-
ther support and expertise of
specialists in Portland.
Local touch
In addition to using local
subcontractors under general
contractor P&C Construction,
the hospital has worked with
17 local artists on art instal-
lations throughout the build-
ing, including a mosaic and
sculptures by ceramicist Rich-
ard Rowland and handmade
paper lighting features by HiiH
Lights.
The hospital is using more
than $13 million in bonds to
pay for the project. And in Jan-
uary, the CMH Foundation
completed a fundraising cam-
paign of more than $3 mil-
lion from local and regional
donors.
“So many people have
worked together to bring radi-
ation therapy to the commu-
nity and to build this state -
of -the -art cancer treatment
center,” the hospital’s CEO
Erik Thorsen said. “This has
been one of the greatest com-
munity -supported
projects
that I have witnessed in my
career. The new CMH/OHSU
Knight Cancer Collaborative
will reduce the incredible bur-
den cancer causes for so many
people in our community.”
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