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On November 12, the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed 140 attendees to the Holiday Inn Express for an unforgettable day of professional growth and leadership development. The Sixth Annual Leadership Summit, themed Beyond Limits: Embody Innovation, inspired attendees to push beyond boundaries and embrace innovation in their leadership journeys. The day’s program was thoughtfully designed to challenge and empower ...

Bushnell University is proud to announce its receipt of a $1 million Healthcare Workforce Ready Grant from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) under the Future Ready Oregon initiative. This grant, part of a competitive statewide effort to bolster healthcare workforce development, supports the groundbreaking “Paving a Pathway to Practice” grant, which aims to address Oregon’s critical nursing shortage by ...

PeaceHealth announced today its plan to build and operate a new inpatient behavioral health hospital. The 96-bed, free-standing facility will be named Timber Springs Behavioral Health Hospital and will be located near PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. The hospital will provide comprehensive inpatient behavioral health services for adolescent, adult and geriatric patients, as well as intensive ...

Deborah Maher, Executive Director of the W.O.W. Hall, and Steve Smith, General Manager at RiverBend Materials, a CRH Company, make an unlikely pair. But when Maher visited RiverBend Materials’ facility during a Chamber-sponsored Roundtable +Tour program during the summer, she met Allison Smith, sales representative from RiverBend, who was running the tour. The Springfield Chamber‘s tour of RiverBend Materials on ...