It was a year in which the health care community had hoped to recuperate. Instead, Oregon and southwest Washington saw major changes affecting workers, patients, insurers, state officials and health systems.
More groups of employees across the eight-hospital system are moving to join unions even as their management talks to OHSU about potentially being absorbed
Dec 12, 2023
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A patient room at the OHSU Center for Women's Health
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COURTESY OF OHSU
OHSU will lay off some employees and 'lease’ physicians to Spring Fertility when the private equity—backed firm opens a new facility in Northwest Portland, potentially meaning a smaller waitlist for would-be parents
Dec 12, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY
New waves of COVID, RSV and the flu are headed this way, but a top expert forecasts less of an impact on most Oregonians and the state’s hospitals compared to 12 months ago
Dec 7, 2023
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Oregon Health & Science University
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The tentative plan would constitute a major reshaping of Oregon’s health care landscape if approved by regulators. The two sides are running a month or more behind as they work on details.
Dec 5, 2023
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Providence Portland Medical Center.
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