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The OHSU Center for Health & Healing Building 2 in the South Waterfront neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, on July 25, 2020. | SHUTTERSTOCK

OHSU board considers budget with $25M operating loss as merger looms

The proposed budget comes after hospital leaders doubled down on their plan to merge with Legacy Health, a deal that still needs regulatory approval

Jun 25, 2024

The Pineapple Healthcare clinic serves an LGBTQ+ population, especially Latinos living with HIV. | ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO/PHELAN M. EBENHACK

Young gay Latinos see rising share of new HIV cases, leading to call for targeted funding

Latinos, who make up about 19% of the U.S. population, accounted for about 33% of new HIV infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jun 25, 2024

A room inside the Recovery Works NW's new withdrawal management facility on Southeast Foster Road in Portland, Ore. Most rooms are limited to two beds. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

Behavioral health access, language barriers persist, new report finds

Low-income Oregonians still don’t have enough mental health and substance use treatment providers, and patients who need interpreters too often don’t get them, an independent state advocate reports

Jun 25, 2024

The Oregon Health Authority's headquarters in Salem in November, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Firing of Oregon Health Authority diversity chief sparks backlash

Not even six months on the job, agency director Sejal Hathi is grappling with questions and dissension after the unexplained firing of the agency’s strongest voice on equity issues, Leann Johnson

Jun 25, 2024

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US Surgeon General declares gun violence ‘a public health crisis’

In 2022, more than 48,000 people were killed by guns in the U.S., or about 132 people a day, and suicides accounted for more than half of those deaths, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jun 25, 2024

The Oregon Health Authority headquarters in Salem | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon Health Authority equity director fired

Leann Johnson was terminated after more than decade working at the state, including eight years as head of a division charged with overseeing internal workplace complaints

Jun 21, 2024
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Longtime U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, | JONATHAN HOUSE/PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP

Q&A: Nearing retirement from Congress, Blumenauer pushes hospice reform

Longtime Portland Democrat's draft legislation would unbundle hospice benefit to deter payment for no care

Jun 20, 2024
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Nurses and supporters picket outside of Providence Milwaukie Hospital on June 18, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Providence nurses will remain on picket lines even as strike officially ends

The Oregon Nurses Association accused Providence of illegally locking its members out of their workplaces. Providence said the “union talks one way, acts another.”

Jun 20, 2024
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