Access & Quality

Image

Rock formations at Bandon Beach in Southern Oregon. | LISA MCKELLY/PIXABAY

Doctor urges community to engage with troubled Bandon safety net clinic

Dr. Hank Holmes won a $418,000 settlement from Coast Community Health Center. Now, he says, the community needs to help ensure its success as outside management prepares to move in.

May 27
Premium

Image

SHUTTERSTOCK

Housing, health care collaboration breaks down barriers for both

Metro funds expansion of work to connect people experiencing homelessness with the health care they need

May 5
Premium

Image

SHUTTERSTOCK

Trump restores Title X funding for two anti-abortion states — while wiping it out elsewhere

At least seven states, including California, now do not have any Title X-funded family planning services, according to a lawsuit filed against the administration in federal court

May 1

Image

Young People in Recovery is a national nonprofit focused on addiction recovery. Six of its Kentucky chapters have been affected by federal funding cuts, leading them to curtail community events including cleanup days, in which chapter members gather used syringes off the street, pass out the overdose reversal medication naloxone, and talk to people using drugs about the possibility of recovery. | BILLY O'BRYAN / VIA KFF

Moms in crisis, jobs lost: The human cost of Trump’s addiction funding cuts

Mental health conditions, including substance use disorders, are a leading cause of maternal mortality in the U.S.

Apr 29

Image

SHUTTERSTOCK

Bills to permit behavioral health treatment by out-of-state providers were sailing, then hit the rocks

Rep. Ed Diehl said the four bills, intended to address Oregon's critical shortage of behavioral health providers, were pulled by the House Speaker's office at the last minute

Apr 24
Premium

Image

An artist's rendering of the new rehabiliation hospital slated for Vancouver, Washington. It will be operated by the nonprofit PeaceHealth and LifePoint, a firm owned by private equity. | PEACEHEALTH

PeaceHealth, Lifepoint announce new rehab hospital in Vancouver

Partnership between Catholic health system and a private equity owned firm has led to another project, following on an earlier one in Springfield, Oregon

Apr 17

Image

MOHAMED HASSAN/PIXABAY

Counselors, therapists want limits on audits by health insurers and the state

Providers say audits are unfairly demanding costly repayment of very old claims — but health insurers say the proposed new rules would be unworkable

Apr 3
Premium

Image

BLOGTREPRENEUR/CC BY 2.0)

Longtime Oregon Health Authority equity director sues state over termination

Leann Johnson has filed a federal lawsuit saying she was ‘scapegoated’ and faced retaliation for raising discrimination concerns and questioning agency leadership

Mar 21
Premium

Image

SHUTTERSTOCK

Tillamook dialysis center delays prompt new legislation

State Rep. Cyrus Javadi says he’s introducing a bill to ensure delays to a new treatment center for kidney patients don’t happen again, saying ‘this is something we need to fix’

Mar 14
Premium