State officials say extra federal money has covered the extra cost so far, but that it may not be sufficient in the second half of this year.
Mar 25, 2021
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Universal Health Services, which owns Cedar Hills Hospital in Portland, wants to build another psychiatric facility in Wilsonville.
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Under Oregon’s certificate of need process, critics and supporters will likely put the 100-bed project in Wilsonville, first proposed in 2016, under a microscope.
The nonprofit system warns that the strike by the 150-member work group “threatens public health and safety of the community,” but fails to persuade a federal judge to bar the walkout.
Other states have set minimums for hospital groups but Oregon is the first to set levels for individual hospitals, which have profited from the expansion of Medicaid.
President Joe Biden created the special enrollment period between Feb. 15 through May 15 to help those who've lost their insurance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout.
Feb 2, 2021
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Oregon Health & Science University's sprawling west side campus.
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