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OHA Ombuds report calls for improvements to children’s behavioral health

Report calls for Oregon to address disparities that prevent children and youth from accessing life-saving behavioral health services

Jan 4, 2024

YaSheka Shaw (left) celebrates losing weight during a checkup with medical student Kaniya Pierre Louis (center) and physician Zita Magloire. | SARAH JANE TRIBBLE/KFF HEALTH NEWS

Can family doctors deliver rural America from its maternal health crisis?

Maternal deaths keep rising, with Black and Indigenous mothers most at risk; more than half of all rural counties in the United States have no hospital services for delivering babies, increasing travel time for parents-to-be and causing declines in prenatal care.

Jan 4, 2024

A group of women stand, as one speaks at a lectern.

Heather Herbert, a hospice nurse with PeaceHealth, speaks at a press conference in Springfield on Dec. 29. Other speakers included state Representative Paul Holvey and U.S. Representative Val Hoyle. | NATHAN WILK/KLCC

PeaceHealth's home care nurses authorize option to strike

A PeaceHealth spokesperson said it’s preparing for a possible strike, but also hopes to work with the home care nurses

Jan 4, 2024

A box of Narcan, an-opioid reversing drug, before it was distributed at a day shelter in Ontario, Ore. on Oct. 13, 2022. | KYLE GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

New year brings new laws on insurance coverage, Narcan availability and more

Health care bills that made it past the finish line during the last session are now law

Jan 2, 2024
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Pictured, a team at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford cared for a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit during the pandemic. | MICHAEL BLUMHARDT/ASANTE HEALTH

Medford police investigate allegations of deadly infections, opioid misuse at Asante hospital

Several patients deaths alleged; Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford officials say they are cooperating with law enforcement

Jan 2, 2024

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Deep flaws in FDA oversight of medical devices, and patient harm, exposed in lawsuits and records

Many medical devices, including many implants, are now cleared for sale by the FDA without tests for safety or effectiveness

Jan 2, 2024

Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters and his wife, Teresa, at their home in Durant, Oklahoma. When Winters found out in August 2022 that he had bladder cancer, he braced for the fight of his life. But he says prior authorization created multiple obstacles that delayed care, including surgery. Winters says his cancer has advanced to stage 4. | DESIREE RIOS/KFF HEALTH NEWS