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Trump turmoil leads to delay of Oregon's biggest procurement process
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Rep. Rob Nosse (pictured upper right) says outside advice would help lawmakers and the public when bills are proposed to require insurance companies to cover a specific treatment, device or procedure. Such bills balance complicated questions of cost and and access.
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Bill to help lawmakers mull health insurance decisions is back
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State review of OHSU takeover of Legacy Health nears recommendation
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State Sen. Lisa Reynolds, D-Washington County, testifies during House Judiciary Committee hearing in April 2025.
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Oregon senator pushes ‘equal pay for equal care’ for primary care clinics
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Price-fixing claims multiply against Regence BlueCross BlueShield, other Blues insurers
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Salem Health-Regence split turns spotlight on insurance company wealth
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, on Nov. 21, 2023.
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Another patient’s death, another new leader add to turmoil at Oregon State Hospital
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Patient’s murder of Haley Rogers leads to verdict of guilty except for insanity
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Mathew Padrow (left), Denise Darby (center) and Hunter Graham (right) testify in support of changes to Oregon's civil commitment law to the Oregon House Judiciary Committee on April 3, 2025.
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Coalition's push to change Oregon’s civil commitment law faces opposition
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Longtime Oregon Health Authority equity director sues state over termination
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Rock formations at Bandon Beach in Southern Oregon.
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Safety net clinic on Southern Oregon coast to close suddenly
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Oregon Medical Board’s latest anti-discrimination rule sparks advocate’s bias concern
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We're keeping an eye on the intersection of politics and health care in Salem.
Read our latest coverage of the Oregon Legislature.
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Nurses at Legacy Health Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland.
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Oregon bill would mandate health care employers prevent, report workplace violence
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Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in North Portland.
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Legacy Health touts stable financial rating
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OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital has a level 1 pediatric trauma center.
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Advisory board’s surprise vote against OHSU’s takeover of Legacy is not final
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The emergency department at Legacy Good Samaritan hospital in Portland on July 30, 2023.
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Opinion: Why SEIU members at Legacy support it becoming part of OHSU
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An ambulance pulls into the entrance driveway for Oregon Health & Science University's emergency department on Wed., Oct. 27, 2021.
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Opinion: OHSU’s acquisition of Legacy Health likely to worsen the state's affordability crisis
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Opinion: OHSU-Legacy merger would improve specialty care for children with heart disease, others
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Parents of disabled children packed a legislative hearing on Feb. 4, 2025 in support of a bill that would allow more to be paid for caring for their kids.
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Parents of high-needs children push Oregon to streamline payments for providing care
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Picket line near Providence St. Vincent Medical Center on Jan. 28, 2025.
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Kotek muscles into Providence contract impasse
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An ambulance pulls into the entrance driveway for Oregon Health & Science University's emergency department on Wed., Oct. 27, 2021.
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Burnout lingers but the ranks of Oregon health care workers are growing
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Nurses represented by the Washington State Nurses Association picket outside PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver on April 18, 2024. The picket came during difficult contract negotiations between the nurses and hospital management.
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PeaceHealth nurses in Vancouver win boost in pay but not staffing
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Vancouver nurses eye Oregon’s new hospital staffing law
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PacificSource lays off 29, will largely pull out of Washington
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Decades-old Oregon health care cost-control program will continue — for now
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A view of the Oregon State Capitol in February 2024.
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Health care for 1 in 3 Oregonians in question as GOP mulls cuts in D.C.
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State’s low-income climate benefit takes effect in time for heat wave
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden speaks about reforms to Medicare at the Community for Positive Aging in Portland on Oct. 15, 2024. Wyden made the appearance on the first day of Medicare's open enrollment period, a time when seniors are bombarded with often confusing information. He was joined by Carisa Dickson, a manager in a Multnomah County program that helps seniors with Medicare.
As Medicare enrollment launches for 2025, Wyden sounds alarm
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Daiya Healthcare settles Medicare fraud allegations
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Longtime U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer,
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Q&A: Nearing retirement from Congress, Blumenauer pushes hospice reform
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Proposed med school in Klamath Falls could help treat rural doctor shortage
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Former Samaritan Health exec claims state contract violations
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Sterling Hanakahi, 73, and Anita Hanakahi, 70, of Tillamook say they were blindsided when Texas-based U.S. Renal Care executives announced they would close their kidney dialysis center in the coastal community Feb. 23. Anita has relied on the center for the past nine years. For her and 10 other local patients, she said, local dialysis treatment is a matter of life and death.
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Company says it will keep Tillamook dialysis clinic open until patients have care
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Clockwise from front left: Sophomores Madison Cailteux, Kaden Davis Young, Samuel Stanley, Jack Von Ammon and Pearl Carter participate in cooperative learning during science class at South Eugene High School on Dec. 11, 2023.
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Trio of bills aims to address Oregon's failure to equip kids with needed tools against drugs
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Oregon faces ‘crisis’ in growing number of babies born with syphilis, officials say
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A view of OHSU's South Waterfront campus from its main campus on Marquam Hill.
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With lawsuits tying up Trump’s gender care order, Oregon hospitals still provide services — so far
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Oregon GOP House lawmakers described their priorities for the 2025 legislative session at a press event in February.
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Oregon GOP lawmakers request federal investigation of Medicaid, gender care
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More women sue Salem pathology lab, alleging false breast cancer diagnoses
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OHSU privatizing fertility services as San Francisco company opens clinic in Portland
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Trump’s war on measurement means losing data on drug Use, maternal mortality, climate change and Morm
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Fox Tucson Theatre in Tucson, Arizona in 2024.
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RFK Jr. says he wants to curb measles. His former nonprofit keeps undermining his message.
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Public handwashing station in Eugene.
Lane County warns of rise in Shigella bacterial infections
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An artist's rendering of the new rehabiliation hospital slated for Vancouver, Washington. It will be operated by the nonprofit PeaceHealth and LifePoint, a firm owned by private equity.
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PeaceHealth, Lifepoint announce new rehab hospital in Vancouver
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Massive Medicaid cuts floated in Congress face hurdles
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Rock formations at Bandon Beach in Southern Oregon.
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Troubled Bandon-based nonprofit will stay open, preserving care on the Oregon coast
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State Sen. Deb Patterson, D-Salem, during a Senate Health Care Committee hearing.
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Oregon won’t set price caps on prescription drugs — for now
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As pharmacies keep closing, Oregon lawmakers will try again to change how they’re paid
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Rulings in Oregon, Washington may kill national Kroger-Albertsons deal
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PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, on Aug. 7, 2013.
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PeaceHealth to refund millions to low-income patients in Washington, but not Oregon
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Oregon hospitals’ reported 'community benefit' grew in 2021
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House passes bill to boost Oregon hospitals’ charity care
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Consultant vows to ‘zero in’ on Oregon prison care denials in wake of blistering report
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State prison docs waited three years before fixing broken wrist, suit says
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Dean Kienholz in his office at Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland, Ore. on July 19, 2023. Kienholz is a prisoner who became a certified alcohol and drug counselor while incarcerated.
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A prison pipeline that could help meet Oregon’s behavioral health workforce needs
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Moss isn’t a likely source of lead exposure for humans. But researchers took samples from it in Portland neighborhoods to see how environmental lead levels vary across the region.
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Study finds old telecom cables leaching lead in parts of Portland
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An artist's rendering of the planned expansion to Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria.
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Astoria hospital hopes to include tsunami upgrades in planned expansion
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