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Bill to shield consumers' credit scores from medical debt signed into law

Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a law backed by consumer advocates that is intended to prevent medical debt from affecting credit scores

Sep 16, 2025
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Hawaii joins Oregon, Washington and California in split with Trump administration over vaccines

The Western states plan to counter controversial recommendations issued by the federal government under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who is now leading the federal health bureaucracy

Sep 3, 2025
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Cases of whooping cough in Oregon on track to set new 70-year high

Whooping cough, a particular threat to babies, is surging to new levels. The newest outbreak is in Tillamook County, which reported zero cases last year — but now has more than 20.

Sep 2, 2025
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Feds launch new push to remove immigrants from state Medicaid rolls

Oregon officials responded to a first request but did not provide personal details about enrollees, but new monthly enrollment checks will be required

Aug 28, 2025

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Nurses and patients rally to save the maternity units in Lebanon and Lincoln City outside Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital on July 23, 2025. | PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN MEALY/OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION

Samaritan decides to continue maternity, surgical services in Lebanon, Lincoln City

The health care system will try to reduce its use of expensive temporary providers while creating hospital-wide teams to coordinate maternity and surgical care

Aug 28, 2025
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Wheeler County has three ambulance services and they're all volunteer-based. | COURTESY OF JOAN FIELD

Rural office wins $1 million to create mobile health team in Wheeler County

The new service includes emergency and community health specialists who will visit people in their home, bridging a gap in services in the state's most sparsely populated county

Aug 21, 2025
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Nurses at Lebanon, Corvallis hospitals ratify contracts

Pay hikes mean negotiations over contracts will reopen for nurses in Albany and Newport at a time when the system has been struggling with finances

Aug 19, 2025
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Optum-owned Oregon Medical Group is ending Eugene-area obstetric services

Physician-owned Women's Care is hiring some OB-GYN's leaving the corporate clinic chain. Talks are ongoing over whether maternity services will continue at McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, and PeaceHealth is readying for an increase in births.

Aug 13, 2025
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Portland health records company faces multimillion-dollar lawsuit in loss of records

The company, Cerbo, blames the error on a third-party hosting provider and says no personal data was breached, but a Texas doctor is seeking up to $12 million, claiming the loss has devastated his business

Aug 5, 2025
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Nurses at two Samaritan Health hospitals weigh vote on tentative contracts

The union leaders hailed the agreements, said they would improve working conditions and pay for the 700 nurses at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Corvallis and Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital in Lebanon.

Aug 4, 2025
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