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“For the record, my name is Steve Statham. I serve as interim president at OHSU,” said Steve Statham, interim president at Oregon Health & Science University, during the informational presentation. “OHSU state appropriation is a small but very vital part of supporting the university.”

The request matters to the state because the appropriation leverages larger federal and private dollars and supports programs statewide, presenters told the committee. OHSU described itself as Oregon’s only academic health center, combining patient care, biomedical research and professional education.

Lawrence Fernstall, OHSU’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, told legislators that OHSU’s operating expenses for the current fiscal year are about $5.48 billion and operating revenues about $5.46 billion. Salaries and benefits are the largest expense, making up roughly 62 percent of operating costs; tuition and fees account for about 2 percent of revenue and the state general fund appropriation about 1.5 percent of OHSU’s overall budget in the current fiscal year. Fernstall said the state appropriation makes up over 47 percent of the School of Nursing’s budget and about 40.5 percent of the Poison Center’s budget.

Statham and other presenters listed financial pressures: implementation of state laws such as nurse staffing ratios, tariffs and inflation driving up costs, and a reported $5,500,000 in canceled grants and subgrants tied to federal funding changes. Statham said OHSU’s labor costs have risen from 57.9 percent of the budget in FY19 to more than 62 percent currently. The university also reported $584,400,000 in sponsored research awards in FY24 and said it ranked 36th out of 2,838 NIH‑funded institutions that year.

OHSU emphasized how a relatively small state investment supports programs that would be harder to sustain otherwise. Fernstall noted the institution’s bond‑issuing authority granted when OHSU became a public corporation in 1995; OHSU currently holds a Standard & Poor’s A+ rating with a stable outlook. He said the university’s operating revenue has increased roughly tenfold since 1995 and that OHSU now employs thousands of people across Oregon.

Committee members asked about details behind the canceled grants and how state support helps stabilize tuition and workforce training. Statham said he would follow up with specifics on the grants. After the informational presentation the committee opened a public hearing on Senate Bill 5525 and received testimony from OHSU‑affiliated witnesses and partners.

The presentation and public hearing provided lawmakers with financial figures and program dependencies as they consider the governor’s and agency budget proposals. OHSU officials said continued state support helps maintain statewide clinical training, rural placements, the Poison Center and other programs that they said would be difficult to sustain without the appropriation.

Next steps: the university submitted additional materials for the record and told legislators it would follow up with requested grant details and other supporting documentation.

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“We essentially have information from children, born in the state of Oregon since 02/2001 up until the present, integrated across the experiences they have in five different state agencies,” said Pam Curtis, who described governance for the dataset and the governance committee that directs analyses. She said the dataset offers a longitudinal view for policy makers.

Curtis said the governance committee directed an analysis of the graduating class of 2020. The committee identified three top predictors of failure to graduate on time across student groups: severe chronic absenteeism (defined by the Oregon Department of Education as missing 20 percent or more of school), juvenile justice contact, and school mobility. Foster‑care experience was cited as the fourth predictor.

Curtis told the committee that the statewide 4‑year graduation rate for the 2020 class was 81 percent. Students who experienced severe chronic absenteeism had a 4‑year graduation rate of 51 percent, about 30 percentage points below the statewide average. Students who experienced one district or school transition had a 4‑year graduation rate of 74 percent compared with 84 percent for students with no transitions. Midyear transitions were substantially more disruptive than summer transitions, Curtis said; students with three or more midyear transitions were nearly twice as likely not to graduate as students with no transitions.

Curtis said foster youth commonly experience mobility: 94 percent of foster youth had experienced mobility during K–12, and they were twice as likely to experience district‑to‑district transitions. The governance committee asked for additional analyses and Curtis said her office would provide slides and written testimony for the record.

Committee members asked to have the materials submitted as testimony so all members could review the detailed slides, and the presenter agreed to file the slides and additional documentation for the record.

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“Last year, 93 percent of accidental home poisonings were managed and kept at home,” said Charisse Pizarro Osilla, managing director of the Oregon Poison Center at OHSU, during the public hearing. She said the center managed nearly 48,000 cases in 2023 and that about 94 percent of those exposures originated at home.

Pizarro Osilla told the committee that the Poison Center’s work shortens hospital stays when a referral is required and that specialized toxicology consultation can lower length of stay and related costs. OHSU presenters earlier in the day told legislators that the Poison Center’s work — by reducing emergency visits and hospital utilization — yielded an estimated $23,000,000 in avoided health care costs in 2023.

Members of the committee and other witnesses offered anecdotal praise from callers who said Poison Center nurses provided calm, informative and reassuring triage and stayed on the line for follow‑up. Pizarro Osilla said caller surveys indicate that, without the Poison Center, about one‑third of callers would have gone to an emergency room.

The Poison Center is largely funded to pay clinical staff who answer calls and perform follow‑up; presenters told lawmakers the center relies on state appropriation dollars that make up a material portion of its budget. Testimony at the hearing highlighted both the center’s public‑health role and its role in reducing costly emergency care.

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“Right now, we have approximately 5,100 students, residents, fellows, and postdocs,” said Marie Chisholm Burns, provost at OHSU, introducing the education portion of the presentation. “The OHSU 30‑30‑30 initiative … will increase the number of graduates in certain health care programs by at least 30 percent, and we will increase student body diversity to at least 30 percent by 2030.”

Chisholm Burns told lawmakers that programs participating in the initiative had a baseline of 553 graduates and that in 2023–24 the programs produced more than 600 graduates, an increase the university characterized as greater than 9 percent. She said student‑body diversity rose from a baseline of 22 percent in fall 2022 to 31 percent in fall 2023 and 30.5 percent in fall 2024.

OHSU reported scholarship activity tied to the initiative and to other sources: about 300 students have been awarded roughly $6,500,000 in scholarships tied to 30‑30‑30, with students receiving awards for the full length of their programs. Chisholm Burns said “more than 60 nursing students have been awarded greater than $4,500,000 in scholarships.” The university said scholarship and other supports help with recruitment, persistence and completion.

Officials also described investments that increase student support and clinical capacity: an expanded academic success center that cut wait times for learning‑support appointments from about six weeks to less than a week; new simulation equipment and faculty; reduced full‑time nursing faculty vacancy rates from about 10 percent in 2022 to less than 4 percent; an accelerated baccalaureate nursing site in Bend operated in collaboration with St. Charles Health System and Central Oregon Community College; and hiring enrollment professionals to boost recruitment and retention.

Dr. Angie Docherty, campus associate dean for the OHSU School of Nursing at the Monmouth campus, told the committee the Monmouth campus has used 30‑30‑30 funding to increase enrollment by 25 percent over two years and plans a further 25 percent increase. “This funding is directly supporting a significant increase in our student enrollment,” she said, adding that 95 percent of the campus’s graduates are employed in Oregon.

OHSU officials also highlighted degree production across schools: 286 students in the Doctor of Dental Medicine program (68 DMD degrees awarded in 2023–24), more than 1,100 students in the School of Nursing across five campuses, and 554 MD students in the School of Medicine. The provost said OHSU awarded 1,295 degrees and certificates in 2023–24 and that the university’s total awards have exceeded a 1,000‑degree target in recent years.

Committee members asked how the university balances diversity goals with admissions standards. Chisholm Burns said admissions remain holistic and program‑specific (for example, medical applicants use MCATs and the dental school uses DATs) and that the university’s definition of diversity is broad and includes geography, socioeconomics, veterans, first‑generation college students and other factors.

The presentation and follow‑up testimony tied OHSU’s education investments to the institution’s $173 million appropriation request and to the Legislature’s decision on how to support statewide workforce development.

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