Amelia Templeton
Oregon Public BroadcastingAmelia Templeton is a multimedia reporter and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting, a JPR news partner. She was previously a reporter for EarthFix, an award-winning public media project covering the environment in the Northwest. Her reporting comes to JPR through the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
Amelia has been producing radio since 2004, when she contributed to a student radio podcast of stories from the war in Iraq. Amelia has also worked as a freelance journalist for NPR, American Public Media's Marketplace, and CBS News. From 2007 to 2009 she was a Refugee Policy Analyst with Human Rights First in Washington, D.C.
She has a degree in history from Swarthmore College.
Amelia enjoys hiking, exploring the Northwest, and raising chickens in her backyard.
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A federal court in Texas has ruled that the 23-year-old FDA approval of mifepristone should be overturned. But a federal court in Washington has ruled the FDA must continue to make the drug available in some states, including Oregon and Washington, but not California.. -
Oregon has until June 2024 to process eligibility redeterminations for all 1.5 million Oregon Health Plan and Children鈥檚 Health Insurance members. It鈥檚 the largest benefits renewal process the state has ever attempted. And it鈥檚 fraught with challenges. -
Democratic leaders in California and Oregon are becoming more open to using involuntary psychiatric commitment to combat homelessness, drug abuse and untreated mental illness. -
If it passes, the compromise bill could radically overhaul Oregon鈥檚 nurse staffing law and make it among the first in the nation to create nurse-to-patient ratios. -
Oregon's system for people with profound mental illness is broken. We examine two major problems and two promising strategies. -
Outside of Oregon's urban areas, a mental health crisis can mean a long drive or an ambulance ride over the mountains to get the right level of care. -
Twelve states have signed on to a lawsuit led by Oregon and Washington's attorneys general, both Democrats. They're seeking to lift restrictions that limit which providers can prescribe the abortion pill - at the same time conservatives have sued in hopes of getting a national ban on the medication. -
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is extending last month鈥檚 state of emergency as a surge of respiratory illnesses strains the state鈥檚 hospital systems. -
Emergency rooms across the state are overflowing and in some cases worried parents are seeking hospital-level care when it鈥檚 not needed. But there may be relief on the horizon.
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Oregon鈥檚 three largest health systems, multiple state court judges, and several counties all sought to convince Judge Michael Mosman to withdraw his order limiting stays at the state hospital. A written decision is pending, but Judge Mosman said "For now assume we are moving forward." -
The shift is driven by a surge in pediatric patients with RSV, a childhood respiratory virus that is particularly dangerous for infants, and a statewide shortage of nurses. -
More boosters are available in pharmacies than at pediatricians' offices, but the public health priority is to get kids their first series of shots
