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The closure of Legacy's Mount Hood birth center was marked with a vigil on March 17, 2023.
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Health officials accused Legacy of creating a staffing problem and signaled the health system could face penalties for the closure
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State Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland, testifies to the Oregon House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee about a bill he sponsored to overhaul Measure 110 on March 28, 2023.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Legislation seeks to streamline the grant process envisioned in Measure 110 while better supporting its oversight council
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Oregon Capitol in Salem.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Key deadline brings Oregon lawmakers’ priorities into focus
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The Oregon Health Authority in Salem.
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OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY
OHSU lobbyist will help run Oregon Health Authority
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James Schroeder.
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COURTESY OF HEALTH SHARE OF OREGON
Outgoing health authority director faced ethics law complications
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OSPIRG wants state to clamp down on hospital profits from commercial patients
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Kevin Heinrich, a licensed practical nurse, at a workstation at Mirabella Portland’s skilled nursing facility on Feb. 13, 2023. Nurses and other health care workers have become increasingly hard to find after the pandemic.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Long-term care providers say temp staff costs unsustainable, seek legislation
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OHSU Hospital on Marquam Hill.
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LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT
Bucking bottom-line gloom, OHSU racks up surprise profits as patient revenues soar
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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Marion County Sheriff won’t transport patients from Oregon State Hospital
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Oregon lawmakers consider bill to boost community-based mental health treatment beds
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Legislation seeks stable funding for new 988 crisis hotline
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Legacy’s closure of the maternity unit at its Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, Ore., follows weeks of pushback and was marked with a candlelight vigil on March 17, 2023, outside the hospital that critics organized.
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State investigates Legacy’s Gresham maternity unit closure
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Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
State threatens ‘regulatory actions’ if Legacy closes Gresham hospital maternity unit without approval
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Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham.
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East County lawmakers urge state to block Legacy’s closure of Gresham birth center
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Measure 110 & addiction care
Check out our comprehensive coverage of how Oregon's landmark drug decriminalization law is impacting the state's addiction care system.
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Despite massive investment portfolios, Oregon hospitals say they need the Legislature’s help
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Oregon hospitals back bill to compensate them for patients with nowhere to go
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Some hospitals allowed secrecy around ‘crisis’ care standards, others aren’t
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Opinion: Oregon’s behavioral health system is at a turning point
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Opinion: To measure Oregon’s psilocybin program’s impact, data must be collected
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James Schroeder.
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COURTESY OF HEALTH SHARE OF OREGON
Opinion: An open letter to Oregon’s health community
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Inside Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland.
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LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT
Unions, hospitals strike larger deal around minimum staffing compromise
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Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Nurses at Legacy’s Gresham hospital push to unionize
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Understaffing concerns have helped fuel nurse union rallies such as the one outside Providence Health's Oregon headquarters in Portland on January 20, 2023.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Stressed and overworked, nurses want strict hospital staffing requirements
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Vancouver Clinic.
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COURTESY VANCOUVER CLINIC
Vancouver Clinic to open new mental health center
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WORKERS RALLIED ON OCT. 10, 2022, AT PEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, TO PROTEST WORKING CONDITIONS./COURTESY PHOTO
PeaceHealth Workers In Vancouver Claim Management ‘Bullying’
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AN ARTIST'S RENDERING OF A NEW RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITY SLATED FOR VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON./COURTESY OF STATE OF WASHINGTON
Vancouver Mental Health Facility Looks To Ease Overcrowding
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Members of the Oregon House of Representatives on March 21, 2023.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Lawmakers seek pause on new Oregon Health Plan contracts
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State prepares to take 300,000 people off Oregon Health Plan as pandemic measures end
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CareOregon.
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COURTESY OF CAREOREGON
Review launched of CareOregon-SCAN merger
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A BUS IN OHIO DESIGNED TO LOOK GOVERNMENT-ISSUE INSTEAD REPRESENTED A SALES TACTIC TO MISLEAD THE ELDERLY, ACCORDING TO A FEDERAL REPORT./COURTESY OF U.S. SENATE
Study: Elderly ‘Inundated’ By Aggressive, Misleading Marketing Driven By Medicare Advantage Plans
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Amid Heightened Medicare Fraud Concerns, State Consumer Hotline Program Helps
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Class-Action Suit Filed Against Oregon Nursing Home Giant Avamere
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Nurses and health care workers at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton.
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COURTESY OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION
Alleged wage theft from nurses at CommonSpirit hospitals in Oregon sparks lawsuit
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Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles is tentatively being absorbed by California-based Adventist Health.
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Critics, backers emerge on Adventist plan to absorb Mid-Columbia Medical Center
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St. Anthony Hospital Technical Workers Vote To Unionize
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Portland school district teaches advocacy group’s substance-use curriculum
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A student at Harmony Academy, a high school for teens in recovery, told The Lund Report he didn't realize he was smoking fentanyl until his parent had him tested. He thought the pills he was buying were oxycodone.
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State inaction left Oregon teens vulnerable to fentanyl’s fatal spread
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From left, Cheryle A. Kennedy, Chairwoman for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde; Kelly Rowe, Health and Wellness Director for the Tribe; and Multnomah County Commissioner Diane Rosenbaum cut the ribbon at the grand opening of Great Circle Recovery at 3580 SE 82nd Ave. in Portland on Feb. 6, 2023.
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EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
New clinic in Portland poised to treat fentanyl addiction in youths and adults
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Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Legacy Health sticks to tight timeline for closing Mount Hood birth center
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Dr. Mary Afsari-Howard, an OBGYN, speaks at a rally on Feb. 13, 2023, seeking to pressure Legacy Health to reverse its decision to close its Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
Rally sounds alarm over closure of Legacy birth clinic in Gresham
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Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles is tentatively being absorbed by California-based Adventist Health.
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Faith-based Adventist says it won’t eliminate reproductive services at Mid-Columbia
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Oregon State Capitol in Salem.
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RENAUDE HATSEDAKIS
Oregon Legislature
Fixing Oregon's faultering health care and behavioral health care systems are high on lawmakers' priority lists this session, and we're in Salem following those efforts.
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COVID, flu and RSV trends moving in right direction, state official says
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OHSU vaccine study suggests too-frequent COVID boosters unhelpful
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As respiratory illnesses cause increasing strain on hospitals in Oregon and Washington, PeaceHealth officials are telling people not to come to the emergency room at Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver if at all possible.
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PeaceHealth Officials Urge Patients To Avoid ER In Vancouver As Oregon Officials Issue New Alert
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Oregon universal health insurance proposal draws praise, fire
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Metro West appeals Washington County ambulance contract award to AMR
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Bill seeking universal health care in Oregon gets first look
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Bill seeks personal data collection on people who use legal psilocybin in Oregon
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Emily Savage and Michael Daher, who manage Myrtle Drugs in Myrtle Creek, told the House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee during an online hearing on Jan. 24, 2023, that pharmacy benefit managers' business practices are destabilizing independent pharmacies.
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Drug supply companies squeezing pharmacies out of existence, Oregon lawmakers warn
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Bill would tighten charity care rules for Oregon hospitals
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The Red Lion Inn & Suites in Seaside was purchase by CareOregon so it could be converted into housing for health care workers, as well as people with behavioral health needs.
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Hotel will become housing for health care workers on Oregon Coast
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Tents line a street in inner Southeast Portland on Feb.14, 2021.
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Decision to deny tents to homeless people sparks health concerns
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Suit Claims Multnomah County Jail Failed To Treat Broken Nose
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Oregon Receives Failing Grade For Its In-Prison Response To COVID-19
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Prison Medical Staff Indifference Causes Severe Bodily Damage, Lawsuit Says
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The now-shuttered J.H. Baxter wood creosoting factory in northwest Eugene on March 6, 2023.
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CHRISTIAN WIHTOL/THE LUND REPORT
State warns Eugene neighborhood of dioxin contamination in soil
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Oregon Resources To Combat Heat Waves
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MIRA SATUREN, 16, OF ASHLAND, SPEAKS TUESDAY IN A PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT HER CONCERNS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. SHE PARTICIPATED IN AN OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY STUDY ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH./BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT
Climate Change Affecting Oregon Youths' Mental Health: Report
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