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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. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

State investigates Legacy’s Gresham maternity unit closure Premium

The health system says the closure was safe, but it didn’t get prior Oregon Health Authority approval

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Opinion: Oregon’s behavioral health system is at a turning point Premium

The state’s director of behavioral health highlights new investments, but says closing treatment gaps requires more action

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Oregon universal health insurance proposal draws praise, fire Premium

Bill would task a new board to craft a single health plan covering all 4 million Oregonians

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State Health Policy

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Outgoing health authority director faced ethics law complications

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Christine Reeh, a licensed therapist, tells the Oregon House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, how insurance auditing practices threaten to reduce access to mental health treatment services. | OLIS SCREEN GRAB/THE LUND REPORT

Bill seeks to shield Oregon mental health providers from costly audit practices

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Dr. Win Kyin worked in primary care in Myanmar before fleeing the country, but she ran into roadblocks when she tried to get licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. Kyin pictured here on March 3 at the IRCO Pacific Islander and Asian Family Center. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Bill seeks to clear path for health workers trained abroad

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Money Flow

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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. | 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. | LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT

Bucking bottom-line gloom, OHSU racks up surprise profits as patient revenues soar

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Behavioral Health

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Marion County Sheriff won’t transport patients discharged 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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Health Equity

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Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham. | 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. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

East County lawmakers urge state to block Legacy’s closure of Gresham birth center

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Oregon Capitol in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Bill allowing Oregon Health Authority to access patient immigration data advances

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What plaintiffs targeting abortion pill want might not even be possible

Mar 22

Bill would tighten charity care rules for Oregon hospitals

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Mar 22

Marion County Sheriff won’t transport patients discharged from Oregon State Hospital

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Mar 22

Oregon universal health insurance proposal draws praise, fire

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Mar 21

Judge signals he could rule to halt sales of common abortion pill

Mar 21

State investigates Legacy’s Gresham maternity unit closure

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Mar 21

Oregon lawmakers flooded with comments on abortion access bill

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Mar 21

Opinion: Oregon’s behavioral health system is at a turning point

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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.

Hospitals

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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

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Opinion: To measure Oregon’s psilocybin program’s impact, data must be collected

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Opinion: An open letter to Oregon’s health community

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Opinion: Oregon’s Coverage Plan Should Go Further For More People

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Caregivers

Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham. | 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. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Stressed and overworked, nurses want strict hospital staffing requirements

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Students at the OHSU School of Nursing Ashland Campus learn, practice and refine nursing skills at the campus’ Simulation and Clinical Learning Center. | COURTESY OF OHSU/ALLEN HALLMARK

Oregon colleges rethink approach to nursing educator gap

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SW Washington

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Vancouver Clinic. | 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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Vancouver Mental Health Facility Looks To Ease Overcrowding

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Oregon Health Plan

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State prepares to take 300,000 people off Oregon Health Plan as pandemic measures end

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Review launched of CareOregon-SCAN merger

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State should delay CareOregon-SCAN merger, urges prominent health care leader

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Aging

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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Rural Health

Nurses and health care workers at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton. | 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. | PHOTO BY LARVICK MEDIA/COURTESY OF MCMC

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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Children’s Health

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. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

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. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

New clinic in Portland poised to treat fentanyl addiction in youths and adults

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Sarah Lemley, executive director and co-founder of Northwest PANDAS/PANS Network, is pictured at right with Rep. Rachel Prusak (left), who has championed coverage for the condition. In the background is Kym McCornack, who is also with the network./Courtesy of Sarah Lemley

Kids on Oregon Health Plan Get Hard-Fought Coverage For A Rare Condition

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Gender Health

Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham. | 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. | 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. | PHOTO BY LARVICK MEDIA/COURTESY OF MCMC

Faith-based Adventist says it won’t eliminate reproductive services at Mid-Columbia

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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.

Public Health

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COVID, flu and RSV trends moving in right direction, state official says

Feb 9

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OHSU vaccine study suggests too-frequent COVID boosters unhelpful

Jan 26

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. | COURTESY OF PEACEHEALTH

PeaceHealth Officials Urge Patients To Avoid ER In Vancouver As Oregon Officials Issue New Alert

Nov 23, 2022

Access & Quality

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Bill would tighten charity care rules for Oregon hospitals

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METRO WEST AMBULANCE

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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Drugs & Pharmacies

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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. | SCREENGRABS VIA OLIS.OREGONLEGISLATURE.GOV/THE LUND REPORT

Drug supply companies squeezing pharmacies out of existence, Oregon lawmakers warn

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‘Microdosing’ allowed under Oregon’s new psilocybin program

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Housing & Poverty

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. | COURTESY OF CAREOREGON