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COMMISSIONER JO ANN HARDESTY SPEAKS DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE REGARDING THE PORTLAND STREET RESPONSE TEAM, FEB. 16, 2021./KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Portland Street Response Expands Citywide With New Answer To Behavioral Health-Related 911 Calls

The program will answer calls related to mental health and addiction across Portland from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Mar 29, 2022

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Tennessee Nurse Convicted Of Neglect And Negligent Homicide For Fatal Drug Error

RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse criminally prosecuted for a fatal drug error in 2017, was convicted Friday after a three-day trial.

Mar 29, 2022

3D rendering of the omicron variant of COVID-19. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Omicron Variant Spurs Mixed COVID-19 Signals

Cases are expected to increase, but state officials don't plan to reimpose pandemic restrictions.

Mar 29, 2022
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland in 2016. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Wyden Pushes Plan To Expand Breast Cancer Screenings For Women In Military

The bill would require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to screen all women who’ve served in areas where garbage was burned in pits, so-called burn pits.

Mar 28, 2022

In this video screenshot, Tony Klein was deposed in November 2019 as part of civil litigation involving 10 women incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, who accused him of sexual abuse. | VIDEO SCREENSHOT/PLAINTIFF DEPOSITION/MICHELLE BURROWS/OPB

Legacy Health Fires Nurse Charged With Sexually Assaulting Incarcerated Women

Tony Klein was hired by Legacy Health in 2018, amid a criminal investigation into sexual assault at Oregon’s only women’s prison.

Mar 28, 2022

The building on Southwest Broadway in Portland that housed FamilyCare's corporate offices. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon Health Authority Settles With FamilyCare For $22.5 Million

Proceeds of the agreement will be donated to the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Lebanon.

Mar 25, 2022
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Task Force For Oregon’s New ‘Bridge’ Health Plan Poised To Launch

Applications are open for a new state task force aimed at helping the working poor with affordable health coverage.

Mar 24, 2022
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Federal Judge Orders Oregon’s Two Rivers Prison To Follow Its Own Mask Rules

A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the failure of Two Rivers Correctional Institution to enforce its own staff mask policy is unconstitutional, amounting to "deliberate indifference" toward a substantial risk for the people imprisoned there.

Mar 24, 2022

Oregon State Hospital in Salem. | BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon State Hospital On A Hiring Spree With $10 million Appropriation

The state-operated psychiatric hospital is getting money to hire new nurses and other care staff, but the boost falls short of what officials had requested.

Mar 24, 2022

State health officials are racing to win federal approval of Oregon Health Plan changes before Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, shown at the Oregon Convention Center vaccination site, leaves office. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Health Care Heavyweights Dole Out Contributions As Oregon’s Gubernatorial Race Heats Up

Hospital groups and labor unions are picking their favorites, but bigger campaign donations will flow closer to the May primary and the November election.

Mar 24, 2022
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