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OHSU Proposes $4.3 Billion Break-Even Budget To Plug Staffing Gaps

Institution proposes to zero out profit margins to grow by about 400 employees, mostly to replace costly temp nurses.

Jun 23, 2022
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IN THIS FILE PHOTO FROM 2020, JASON COOK OF CLEAN WATER SERVICES PULLS A WASTEWATER SAMPLE FROM A SEWER IN FOREST GROVE, OREGON./TODD SONFLIETH/OPB

Oregon Wastewater Data Shows Far More People Have COVID Than Shown Through Testing

A rise in home testing and decrease in disease severity have masked a large increase in COVID-19 infections in Oregon, but the state’s poop doesn’t lie.

Jun 23, 2022

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State: Oregon Insurers Fell Short In Reproductive Health Coverage

Oregon Division of Financial Regulation report finds violations of the state’s 2017 Reproductive Health Equity Act.

Jun 22, 2022

A NEW ONE-STOP TREATMENT CENTER WILL BE LOCATED IN THIS BUILDING IN BEAVERTON ON NORTHWEST EVERGREEN PARKWAY, WHICH CURRENTLY HOUSES THE COUNTY'S EMERGENCY DISPATCH./COURTESY WASHINGTON COUNTY

CODA To Operate One-Stop Substance Use Recovery Center In Washington County

The triage and treatment center in Beaverton will add 86 detox, sobering and residential treatment beds as soon as 2024.

Jun 21, 2022
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Nurses and others gathered in downtown Oregon City on May 11, 2022 for an informational picket about contract negotiations with Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center. | COURTESY OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION

Oregon Health Care Workers Increasingly Turn To Unions

The push in Oregon to organize for better working conditions reflects a broader national trend.

Jun 21, 2022
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MARCUS AND ALLYSON WARD OF CHICAGO MOVED ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO BE CLOSER TO FAMILY AFTER THE PREMATURE BIRTH OF THEIR TWINS, MILO AND THEO, LEFT THEM WITH ABOUT $80,000 IN MEDICAL DEBT./TAYLOR GLASCOCK/KHN AND NPR

100 Million People In America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt

More than 100 million people in America are beset by a health care system that is systematically pushing patients into debt on a mass scale.

Jun 21, 2022

TENTS NOW CROWD DOWNTOWN RETAIL CORRIDORS IN PORTLAND. AN ESTIMATED 6,000 PEOPLE ARE LIVING HOMELESS IN THE METROPOLITAN REGION, A 50% SURGE OVER 2019./ANGELA HART/KHN

Sobering Lessons In Untying The Knot Of A Homeless Crisis

Portland’s homeless problem now extends well beyond the downtown core, creating a crisis of conscience for this fiercely liberal city.

Jun 21, 2022

Families shown waiting last November for their turn at a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinic for children ages 5 through11 years old at Clackamas Town Center./Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPB

Why Federal Approval Of A COVID Vaccine For Infants, Toddlers Took This Long

Federal health advisors last week authorized COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old, the last age group to gain access to the vaccine.

Jun 21, 2022