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For a time, drive-through and walk-in vaccinations were available across the state, including some funded by the state. | PHOTO COPYRIGHT: PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP (USED WITH PERMISSION)

Legislature likely to provide a fraction of public health officers’ budget request

Local health officials sought $286 million to combat health disparities; a budget bill includes $50 million

Jun 20, 2023
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The Capitol Building in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Health care legislation back on Senate agenda as impasse ends

The Senate has less than a week to finish a long legislative to-do list that includes hospital staffing, funding a crisis line and more

Jun 20, 2023
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Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center on Monday as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Prospects for resolution unclear as historic nurses strike begins in Portland, Seaside

Providence Health & Services officials say they’ve cut services as neither side budges on contract negotiations

Jun 19, 2023
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Plan for crisis stabilization in Portland shifts amid uncertainty

Citing challenges to setting up a large crisis stabilization center, the county is looking for providers to run smaller sobering and stabilization programs

Jun 15, 2023

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Providence nurses picket in Seaside, Oregon on April 27, 2023. | COURTESY OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION

Providence cuts services in Seaside and Portland as nurses prepare to strike

Unionized nurses could take the rare step of launching a five-day strike on Monday as Providence tries to minimize disruptions

Jun 15, 2023
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Oregon House of Representatives in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon House passes pharmacy benefit manager bills

The bills had strong bipartisan backing after pharmacies pleaded for help. One sparked cost concerns from Oregon cities.

Jun 15, 2023
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The closure of Legacy's Mount Hood birth center was marked with a vigil on March 17, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Legacy pushes back Gresham birth center reopening

The health system indicated it has made progress in securing staff for the birth center and has submitted its plans to regulators

Jun 13, 2023
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An employee of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services helps a consumer pick a health care plan on the federal online health insurance marketplace. | DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND BUSINESS SERVICES

Comment period extended as concerns grow over new health plan's effects

Kaiser Permanente is urging the state to pause the Basic Health Program, which would extend Oregon Health Plan-style benefits to more than 90,000 people, to address premium hikes that would hit tens of thousands of other Oregonians

Jun 13, 2023
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Economists ask if Oregon’s hospital price cap, birth control expansion worked as planned

Research presented at a national conference puts a microscope to two Oregon laws, offering lessons to other states

Jun 13, 2023
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St. Charles Health System in Bend. | COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM

St. Charles Medical Center dodges nurses strike with deal over pay, rest breaks

The deal comes after nearly two days of negotiations and as the nurses union threatens strikes at other hospitals

Jun 8, 2023
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