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Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center's Century High School clinic in in Hillsboro, Oregon. | ©PORTLAND TRIBUNE, REPUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION

Oregon lawmakers to push for in-school medical center funding

With mental health issues among adolescents on the rise, advocates say school-based health centers need more funding

Nov 7, 2023
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Governor, lawmakers need to take action on Oregon kids’ mental health, advocate says

One in 4 Oregon youth ages 12-17 have experienced a “major depressive episode” in the last 12 months — the second-highest rate in the country, according to the state

Oct 31, 2023
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COURTESY OF SAINT ALPHONSUS.

Community outcry, government help may delay closure of Baker City birth center to 2024

Saint Alphonsus is transferring nurses from Idaho to keep maternity services going through August, and delay of the closure could extend 6-12 months if federal agency comes through

Jul 26, 2023
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Saint Alphonsus may delay closure of birth center in Baker City

State officials say they don't have the ability to block the closure on safety concerns, as they did with Legacy Health earlier this year

Jul 20, 2023
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Oregon Capitol in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Health care bills without price tag or controversy slip past Senate standoff

While the impasse in Salem has tied up major health care legislation, some consequential bills are becoming law

May 30, 2023
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Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Legacy’s Gresham maternity unit closure endangered patients, federal regulators say

Blistering federal notice says Legacy’s Gresham-based hospital could lose Medicare payments unless it corrects findings of patient safety violations

May 11, 2023
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The U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C. | SHUTTERSTOCK

As teens overdose on fentanyl, Merkley asks US Education Department to ramp-up prevention

Most of Oregon’s Congressional delegation signed onto the senator’s letter urging federal assistance to schools for substance use education and overdose prevention

Apr 20, 2023

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McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center. | CHRISTIAN WIHTOL/THE LUND REPORT

Hospital in Springfield will shutter midwifery unit, sparking criticism

For-profit McKenzie-Willamette hospital says the 11-employee program is ‘unsustainable’

Apr 14, 2023
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Portland school district teaches advocacy group’s substance-use curriculum

Some middle and high schoolers in Portland Public Schools learn about harm reduction from the Drug Policy Alliance, a pro-drug legalization group

Mar 23, 2023
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A student at Harmony Academy, a high school for teens in recovery, told The Lund Report he didn't realize he was smoking fentanyl until his parent had him tested. He thought the pills he was buying were oxycodone. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

State inaction left Oregon teens vulnerable to fentanyl’s fatal spread

A lack of prevention, education and youth addiction programs opened the door to tragedy as dealers added the potent opioid to local drug markets

Mar 7, 2023