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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Measure 111 makes Oregon the first state in the nation with a constitutional obligation to provide access to affordable health care to all its residents, similar to the constitutional guarantee of a public K-12 education. -
Just four out of 40 pediatric ICU beds are available statewide. The Oregon Health Authority has asked hospitals to increase staff and space to care for the sickest kids. -
Mailers sent in several Oregon Senate districts point to Democratic candidates鈥� liberal positions on abortion law in a surprising bid to make it a winning issue for Republicans -
The union鈥檚 proposal, were it to pass, would make Oregon one of just three states to mandate nurse-to-patient ratios; the state hospital association says the proposed law is the wrong way to fix the problem -
The number of abortions per month in Oregon went up by 18% in August, after the Supreme Court鈥檚 June decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Providers say they're seeing many more patients from states with increased abortion restrictions. -
New research from OHSU shows a 90% increase in firearm injuries since 2019. -
Lawmakers, who referred the measure to the voters, disagree on its cost and implications. -
Oregon will roll out a number of first in the nation changes to its Medicaid program over the next five years. Top among them: continuous coverage for kids through their 6th birthday and spending on food and housing for certain in-transition populations.
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Newly reformulated COVID-19 booster shots have arrived in Oregon this week. The bivalent vaccines target new strains of omicron along with the parent strain of the virus. Here's what to know and where to find them.
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Starting this month, the Oregon Health Authority will stop publishing a daily online update on COVID-19 case numbers and deaths. It signals a shift in focus to other priorities, including monkeypox, prepping for flu season and addressing racial inequities in health. -
Oregon hospitals are full of patients, running low on nurses and bleeding money. -
On the day the near-total ban on abortions goes into effect in Idaho, Planned Parent leaders in Oregon say visits from out-of-state patients needing abortions are already up.
