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CareOregon urges Kotek to speed up merger review Premium

The Oregon Health Plan provider, which would send $120 million to a California nonprofit under the deal, wants the state to wrap up a process nearing the 12-month mark — even as opposition mounts

Nov 28

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. | COURTESY OF PEACEHEALTH

New discrimination suit filed against PeaceHealth Riverbend Premium

A nurse filed a lawsuit alleging age and disability discrimination, and claiming management suggested she was faking her injury

Nov 28

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Lawsuit seeks $2 million over allegedly illegal hospital debt collection practices Premium

The suit against Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls comes despite recent protections in Oregon to ensure poor patients access charity care

Nov 28

State Health Policy

CareOregon. | COURTESY OF CAREOREGON

More public-comment meetings slated for proposed CareOregon/SCAN merger

Nov 14

Dr. Sejal Hathi, 33, in January takes over as director of the Oregon Health Authority, an agency that oversees care to more than 1.3 million low-income people. | SCREENSHOT VIA THE LUND REPORT

Q&A: Incoming Oregon Health Authority Director Sejal Hathi on Measure 110, delivery reforms

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Dr. Sejal Hathi | COURTESY GOV. TINA KOTEK'S OFFICE

Kotek appoints new director of Oregon Health Authority

Nov 6

Money Flow

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State wants input on CareOregon merger

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Oregon Health & Science University Center for Health and Healing Building 2 in the South Waterfront neighborhood, July 2020. | SHUTTERSTOCK

OHSU reports strong profits, but cites fast-rising wages and drug costs

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Health insurance rates going up for nearly 300,000 Oregonians

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Behavioral Health

Stabbin’ Wagon holds regular outreach events at Medford’s Hawthorne Park, which has seen issues with drug use and camping among unsheltered people. Melissa Jones, the group’s leader, was arrested at the park during sweeps of homeless encampments in 2020. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Despite criticisms, Stabbin’ Wagon signs contract with health authority

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six faces of people shown in an online webinar

Clockwise, from left to right: Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran, moderator and Portland Axios reporter Emily Harris, Providence Health Chief Executive of Behavioral Health Robin Henderson, Portland Street Response Interim Program Manager Lielah Leighton, Jonathan Mroz of Central City Concern, Multnomah Circuit Judge Nan Waller discussed promising approaches to improve behavioral health care in Portland. | SCREENSHOT, OREGON HEALTH FORUM

Decisive action could help Portland's dysfunctional behavioral health system, experts say

Nov 16

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Key Multnomah County mental health diversion unit ‘in shambles’

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Health Equity

The closure of Legacy's Mount Hood birth center was marked with a vigil on March 17, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Legacy pushes back Gresham birth center reopening

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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

Comment period extended as concerns grow over new health plan's effects

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New Oregon health plan for working poor would jack up costs for people earning slightly more

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Hospitals

Standing on a bluff overlooking the Willamette River in North Portland on Nov. 14, 2023, Dr. Eric Seymour said he was born pro-union, but that some of his fellow hospitalists employed by the Legacy Health System have needed convincing. | LILLIAN MONGEAU HUGHES/THE LUND REPORT

Hospital physicians at Legacy Health likely to unionize

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During a rally at PeaceHealth's University District hospital in Eugene on Sept. 11, 2023, Oregon Nurses Association executive director Anne Tan Piazza addresses the crowd. | CHRISTIAN WIHTOL/THE LUND REPORT

PeaceHealth to issue layoff notices with its Eugene hospital emergency department closing Dec. 1

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Nurses union and OHSU reach tentative deal on new contract

Sep 26

Opinion

Jonathan Mroz in Old Town on April 5, 2023, standing on the patch of sidewalk where he was living in tent before he entered a withdrawal management facility two years ago. Today he works just blocks away as a communications specialist for Central City Concern. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

Opinion: How to address homelessness in Portland

Sep 28

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Letter to the editor: Universal Health Plan Governance Board deserves support, understanding

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Opinion: Oregon’s Congressional delegation must support better medical billing practices

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Caregivers

Legacy Health Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest Portland, Ore., on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

More than 150 Legacy doctors vote to unionize

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A pile of flowers and a note eulogizing Bobby Smallwood, a security officer for Legacy Health, sit outside the Good Samaritan Medical Center, where he was killed during a confrontation on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon lawmakers seek stiffer charges for assaults on hospital workers

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PeaceHealth workers picket on Oct. 11, 2023. | COURTESY OREGON FEDERATION OF NURSES AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Surge in health care walkouts continues with PeaceHealth strike Monday

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SW Washington

Older woman with adult disabled son in a wheelchair

Melissah Watts, 66, and her son Max, 38. Melissah cares for her son, Max, full-time. | COURTESY OF SEIU 775

Into a caregiving void: Family members fill crucial role providing long-term care

Nov 28

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Washington faces steep path closing mental health bed gap for jailed defendants

Oct 26

Workers rallied on Oct. 10, 2022, at Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, to protest working conditions. | COURTESY PHOTO

Threatened PeaceHealth strike could strip workers’ health coverage

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Oregon Health Plan

CareOregon is among 16 coordinated care organizations in Oregon serving Medicaid members. | LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT

CareOregon merger proposal draws mixed reaction

Oct 12

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Audit faults the state’s ‘poor’ monitoring of Oregon Health Plan contractor

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Oregon Health Plan insurers propose spending $25 million to offset record profits

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Aging

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

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Portland-area senior sues Mutual of Omaha over repeated denials

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Oregon Health & Science University at night. | OHSU/CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS

OHSU, Aetna may cut ties, potentially affecting thousands of seniors

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Rural Health

Rock formations at Bandon Beach in Southern Oregon. | LISA MCKELLY/PIXABAY

Bandon health center sued for $1.5 million

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St. Charles Health System in Bend. | COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM

St. Charles cuts ties with 3 Medicare Advantage plans as enrollment looms

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Morrow County Health District ambulances in northeastern Oregon. | COURTESY MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT

Morrow County Health District sues to block ambulance competition

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Children’s Health

Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center's Century High School clinic in in Hillsboro, Oregon. | ©PORTLAND TRIBUNE, REPUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION

Oregon lawmakers to push for in-school medical center funding

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Governor, lawmakers need to take action on Oregon kids’ mental health, advocate says

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The U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C. | SHUTTERSTOCK

As teens overdose on fentanyl, Merkley asks US Education Department to ramp-up prevention

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Gender Health

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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Ray Anthony sits at their desk inside Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette's clinic on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Portland on Sept. 15, 2023. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

Gender-affirming care can be a ‘dice game;’ this navigator tries to improve the odds

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Saint Alphonsus may delay closure of birth center in Baker City

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Oregon’s Medicaid Bonanza

Contractors using public funds to provide health care to 1.3 million low-income Oregonians on the Oregon Health Plan have amassed large sums while spending less on care. Our ongoing series examines where that money is going.

Public Health

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

New rates, other changes as individual enrollment begins in Oregon

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The country’s leading COVID-19 variant is still rare in Oregon

Oct 26

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Oregon health officials recommend getting new COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it’s available

Sep 14

Access & Quality

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Oregon hospitals, state near crucial stage in lawsuit over health care mergers program

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Pressure grows on PeaceHealth to keep Eugene hospital open

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State health care helpline makes Oregonians wait too long, federal officials say

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Drugs & Pharmacies

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State accuses local pharmacy owner of pocketing money under HIV program

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

Kroger-Albertson merger could harm Oregon pharmacy access

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Oregon should improve oversight of insurers’ prescription drug program managers, auditors say

Aug 21

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

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