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COURTESY OF CAREOREGON
More public-comment meetings slated for proposed CareOregon/SCAN merger
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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.
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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
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COURTESY GOV. TINA KOTEK'S OFFICE
Kotek appoints new director of Oregon Health Authority
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Providence Portland Medical Center.
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Regence BlueCross BlueShield takes Providence rate dispute public
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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.
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OHSU reports strong profits, but cites fast-rising wages and drug costs
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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.
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Despite criticisms, Stabbin’ Wagon signs contract with health authority
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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.
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SCREENSHOT, OREGON HEALTH FORUM
Decisive action could help Portland's dysfunctional behavioral health system, experts say
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Key Multnomah County mental health diversion unit ‘in shambles’
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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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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.
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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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PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, on Aug. 7, 2013.
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More than 1,700 PeaceHealth workers voting on tentative deal
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PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield.
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COURTESY OF PEACEHEALTH
New discrimination suit filed against PeaceHealth Riverbend
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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.
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LILLIAN MONGEAU HUGHES/THE LUND REPORT
Hospital physicians at Legacy Health likely to unionize
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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.
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Opinion: How to address homelessness in Portland
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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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Legacy Health Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest Portland, Ore., on July 30, 2023.
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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.
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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.
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COURTESY OREGON FEDERATION OF NURSES AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Surge in health care walkouts continues with PeaceHealth strike Monday
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Melissah Watts, 66, and her son Max, 38. Melissah cares for her son, Max, full-time.
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COURTESY OF SEIU 775
Into a caregiving void: Family members fill crucial role providing long-term care
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EMILIANO BAR/UNSPLASH
Washington faces steep path closing mental health bed gap for jailed defendants
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Workers rallied on Oct. 10, 2022, at Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, to protest working conditions.
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Threatened PeaceHealth strike could strip workers’ health coverage
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CareOregon is among 16 coordinated care organizations in Oregon serving Medicaid members.
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LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT
CareOregon merger proposal draws mixed reaction
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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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Oregon residential care facilities say a new law is making them look bad
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STEFAN SCHWEIHOFER/PIXABAY
Portland-area senior sues Mutual of Omaha over repeated denials
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Oregon Health & Science University at night.
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OHSU/CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS
OHSU, Aetna may cut ties, potentially affecting thousands of seniors
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Klamath Falls, Oregon.
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Lawsuit seeks $2 million over allegedly illegal hospital debt collection practices
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Rock formations at Bandon Beach in Southern Oregon.
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Bandon health center sued for $1.5 million
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St. Charles Health System in Bend.
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COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM
St. Charles cuts ties with 3 Medicare Advantage plans as enrollment looms
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Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center's Century High School clinic in in Hillsboro, Oregon.
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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.
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As teens overdose on fentanyl, Merkley asks US Education Department to ramp-up prevention
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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.
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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.
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EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
Gender-affirming care can be a ‘dice game;’ this navigator tries to improve the odds
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COURTESY OF SAINT ALPHONSUS.
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.
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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.
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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
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Oregon health officials recommend getting new COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it’s available
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Oregon hospitals, state near crucial stage in lawsuit over health care mergers program
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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.
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CHRISTIAN WIHTOL/THE LUND REPORT
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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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.
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Kroger-Albertson merger could harm Oregon pharmacy access
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Oregon should improve oversight of insurers’ prescription drug program managers, auditors say
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PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington, on Aug. 7, 2013.
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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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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.
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EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT
A prison pipeline that could help meet Oregon’s behavioral health workforce needs
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Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem is a maximum-security prison.
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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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Suit Claims Multnomah County Jail Failed To Treat Broken Nose
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An artist's rendering of the planned expansion to Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria.
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COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Astoria hospital hopes to include tsunami upgrades in planned expansion
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University of Oregon to host talk on climate change impacts to public health
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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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