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Dr. Matthias Merkel, OHSU senior associate chief medical officer for capacity management and patient flow, and Stephanie Gilliam, director of OHSU Mission Control, give a tour of the newly remodeled nerve center for a program that tracks and coordinates hospital resources on Sept. 17, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

‘Mission control’ center seeks to get Oregonians hospital care quicker Premium

Supported by state and federal grants, Oregon Health & Science University is leading a statewide hospital data-sharing collaboration intended to improve care

Sep 17

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Tenth lawsuit claims Oregon lab’s testing caused women harm from unneeded chemotherapy Premium

The 10 women who’ve sued Salem-based Pacific Pathology say inaccurate tests led to false diagnoses, grueling treatment and permanent injuries — and the firm is contesting their claims in court

Sep 17

The front desk of ARCHES Inn in Salem, a hotel turned shelter that is operated by Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action. The facility offers wildfire survivors, as well as chronically homeless and medically fragile people a short-term stay. Settings like this could be part of addressing delays in hospital discharges in Oregon. | COURTESY/MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION

Solutions floated for Oregon’s hospital boarding problem Premium

Using hospitals to hold people who don’t need to be in a hospital is having ripple effects across the state’s health care system

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State Health Policy

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Oregon Health Authority seeks $39 billion budget

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Advisory committe members sought for Oregon’s ‘bridge’ health plan

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Evan Saulino, clinical director of Comagine Health, speaks about physician burnout and administrative chores that he and others say are weighing down primary care in Oregon. His remarks were part of the Oregon Health Forum, an event held on August 21, 2024, at the Multnomah Athletic Club and moderated by journalist Emily Harris. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Excessive administrative chores are burning out primary care doctors, panel says

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Money Flow

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OHSU, Legacy report new losses as merger bid looms

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The Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace is a state portal that connects individuals to health insurance and potential federal subsidies to help pay for it. | HEALTHCARE.OREGON.GOV/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon health insurance average rates poised to jump by as much as 16%

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OHSU, postdocs avert strike with 11th-hour deal

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Behavioral Health

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Justice department sues Measure 110 grantee for second time, citing land deal

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Feds question safety at Oregon State Hospital yet again after patient overdose

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Federal court oversight of Oregon State Hospital enters new phase

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Health Equity

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Oregon Medical Board’s latest anti-discrimination rule sparks advocate’s bias concern

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Diane Lund-Muzikant at her home in February 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Our founder's message: Why I’m stepping back from the board of The Lund Report, and what’s next

Aug 13

Oregon Health Authority Director Sejal Hathi unveiled a strategic plan for the agency on Tuesday, Aug. 6, that promises sweeping changes for health equity in the state. | SCREENSHOT

Hathi unveils Oregon health equity plan, vows progress by 2027

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Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford in June, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Third fentanyl-swap lawsuit filed against Asante's hospital in Medford, demanding $116 million

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Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford in June, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Asante Rogue sued for $303 million over claims that fentanyl swaps infected patients

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Sushant Puri, MBBS, left, and Huan Vo, M.D., began work in August in OHSU's neuro-oncology program | COURTESY/OHSU PHOTOGRAPHER CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS

OHSU beefs up care with brain cancer hires

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Opinion

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Barney Speight played a major role in reforms to Oregon's health care system intended to lower costs and improve access. | COURTESY PHOTO

In memoriam: Barney Speight

May 16

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Opinion: Oregon should battle the hostile takeover of its health care system

Feb 20

Jon and Jennifer Epstein look at photos from their son, Cal's, memorial inside his bedroom on Jan. 24, 2023. Cal died from an accidental drug overdose in December 2020 after he unknowingly took a counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

Opinion: Oregon lawmakers must include youth prevention in drug policy proposals

Jan 30

Caregivers

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Q&A: Call them what you want, Tara Foley says Oregon PAs have a big impact on care

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Southern Oregon social service company founders charged with fraud

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Nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association through the Association of University Registered Nurses and their supporters crowded into Elizabeth Caruthers Park on Sept. 18, 2023 to announce they were prepared to strike as negotiations with Oregon Health & Science University remain at a stalemate. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Nurses, unions say ethics code revision on strikes helps hospitals

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SW Washington

Nurses represented by the Washington State Nurses Association picket outside PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver on April 18, 2024. The picket came during difficult contract negotiations between the nurses and hospital management. | COURTESY/WASHINGTON STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION

PeaceHealth nurses in Vancouver win boost in pay but not staffing

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Vancouver nurses eye Oregon’s new hospital staffing law

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PacificSource lays off 29, will largely pull out of Washington

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Oregon Health Plan

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State’s low-income climate benefit takes effect in time for heat wave

Jul 9

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

More than 80% keep coverage as Oregon Health Plan eligibility checks near completion

Jun 27

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

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Aging

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

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

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Oregon reviews UnitedHealth deal for Amedisys home health, hospice

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Oregon residential care facilities say a new law is making them look bad

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Rural Health

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Former Samaritan Health exec claims state contract violations

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Sterling Hanakahi, 73, and Anita Hanakahi, 70, of Tillamook say they were blindsided when Texas-based U.S. Renal Care executives announced they would close their kidney dialysis center in the coastal community Feb. 23. Anita has relied on the center for the past nine years. For her and 10 other local patients, she said, local dialysis treatment is a matter of life and death. | COURTESY OF ANITA HANAKAHI

Company says it will keep Tillamook dialysis clinic open until patients have care

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Tillamook dialysis closure has patients fearing the worst

Feb 7

Children’s Health

Patients who contract measles, a highly contagious disease, develop a skin rash. | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Largest Oregon measles outbreak in 30 years endangers kids, expert says

Sep 10

Lucas Coghill, 9, plays the PAX Good Behavior Game during class at Fern Hill Elementary School in Forest Grove, Ore., Nov. 9, 2023. The game focuses on helping students identify and encourage positive “PAX” behaviors and avoid “spleems” as part of daily classroom management. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB/THE LUND REPORT

Prevention in schools gets help from Oregon Health Plan

Feb 15

Many counterfeit pills containing fentanyl are indistinguishable from oxycodone. | U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION

Oregon Education Department seeks funding for fentanyl, opioid prevention

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Gender Health

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More women sue Salem pathology lab, alleging false breast cancer diagnoses

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A patient room at the OHSU Center for Women's Health | COURTESY OF OHSU

OHSU privatizing fertility services as San Francisco company opens clinic in Portland

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Protest signs were placed by the Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center's entrance during a vigil for the birth center's closure on March 17, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Women’s health workers at Legacy push for union

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Public Health

Oregon Health & Science University researcher Jonah Sacha is a senior co-author of a study published in the journal Nature Communications on an experimental flu vaccine designed to protect against all variants of the virus. | COURTESY/CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS OF OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Study holds hope for revolutionary flu vaccine, OHSU researchers say

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Health care groups enter Oregon gun control case

Jun 18

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State issues dashboard as more Oregonians suffer brain injuries

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Access & Quality

Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles is tentatively being absorbed by California-based Adventist Health. | PHOTO BY LARVICK MEDIA/COURTESY OF MCMC

State seeks input on Columbia Gorge hospital, Gentiva hospice care

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A cot and medical supplies fill an ambulance. | PHOTO COPYRIGHT: PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP/ANNA DEL SAVIO (USED WITH PERMISSION)

Harney County Health District sued for $1 million

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Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford in June, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Medford nurse accused of fentanyl swap battles in civil, criminal courts

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Drugs & Pharmacies

A group of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at a Walgreens in Vancouver, Washington voted Sept. 3, 2024, to become the first workplace in the Pacific Northwest to join The Pharmacy Guild, a union created specifically to represent pharmacy workers. | COURTESY/THE PHARMACY GUILD

Vancouver workers’ vote reflects new pharmacy union organizing

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A Fred Meyer store in Tigard, Oregon. Kroger owns the Fred Meyer brand. | TADA IMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK

Pharmacies hang in the balance as a Portland federal judge considers Kroger-Albertsons merger

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New pharmacy union organizes in greater Portland

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Housing & Poverty

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, on Aug. 7, 2013. | RYTYHO USA/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

PeaceHealth to refund millions to low-income patients in Washington, but not Oregon

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Oregon hospitals’ reported 'community benefit' grew in 2021

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House passes bill to boost Oregon hospitals’ charity care

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Prison Health

A wooden sign reading Deer Ridge Correctional Institution sits in front of a chainlink fence with barren hills in the background.

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State prison docs waited three years before fixing broken wrist, suit says

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Dean Kienholz in his office at Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland, Ore. on July 19, 2023. Kienholz is a prisoner who became a certified alcohol and drug counselor while incarcerated. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

A prison pipeline that could help meet Oregon’s behavioral health workforce needs

Aug 25, 2023

Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem is a maximum-security prison. | COURTESY OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.

Most Oregon prisoners can’t get addiction treatment; there’s a bill to change that

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Environmental Health

Moss isn’t a likely source of lead exposure for humans. But researchers took samples from it in Portland neighborhoods to see how environmental lead levels vary across the region. | COURTESY/OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

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