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503: The northwestern corner of Oregon, including Portland and its metropolitan area, Salem and other cities 541: All of Oregon outside the northwestern corner, including Eugene. 971: An overlay of area code 503. Until 2008, 971 was a concentrated overlay, meaning it was only present in some parts of the 503 area.
Mercy Flights is a ground ambulance and air medical transport service based in Medford, Oregon, United States.. Mercy Flights was founded as a non-profit organization in 1949 by George Milligan, an air traffic controller in Medford, after a friend of his died of polio in Southern Oregon, unable to survive the long, slow ground transport to Portland. [1]
In the initial configuration of the nationwide telephone numbering plan designed by AT&T in 1947, [1] the state of Oregon was assigned a single area code, 503. Despite Oregon's growth in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly in the Willamette Valley (Portland and Eugene), this remained so for 48 years, making Oregon one of the largest states by area with a single area code.
However, by 2007, 541 was quickly exhausting central office codes, due to the proliferation of cell phones and pagers, particularly in Eugene, Corvallis and Medford. To mitigate central office code exhaustion, the Oregon Public Utility Commission approved an overlay numbering plan with area code 458 for the entire area, [2] resulting in ...
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Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system headquartered in Renton, Washington.. The health system includes 51 hospitals, more than 800 non-acute facilities, and numerous assisted living facilities in the western half of the United States (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, New Mexico, and Texas).
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Speaker Mike Johnson is huddling with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Day, as the two strategize for a high-stakes House vote on Friday to elect a speaker for the 119th ...