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Salem Health-Regence split turns spotlight on insurance company wealth

Power struggles, pressure tactics and public brinksmanship in recent disputes between health insurers and providers — such as hospitals — are all about money. Insurers have it, and providers want more of it.

Mar 4, 2025
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Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay. | COURTESY BAY AREA HOSPITAL.

Union wants to keep Coos Bay hospital in public hands

With a Tennessee-based firm poised to take over operation of Bay Area Hospital, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 says a few changes and a temporary loan are what's needed to get the facility breaking even again

Feb 27, 2025
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Oregon hospitals report less spending on ‘community benefit’ programs

Hospitals spent less on charity care and other programs while still meeting state minimums, but critics say it's not enough

Feb 25, 2025
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Picket line near Providence St. Vincent Medical Center on Jan. 28, 2025. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Providence nurses end strike despite mixed feelings, approve contracts at eight hospitals

Oregon's largest-ever health care strike has ended after nurses at Providence's eight hospitals approved tentative deals negotiated by their union. They'd resoundingly rejected the union's earlier attempt at reaching agreement.

Feb 24, 2025
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SALEM HEALTH HOSPITAL IN SALEM./BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Salem Health will stop accepting Regence insurance over contract impasse

Both sides said the other was to blame for unreasonable contract demands that could disrupt care for up to 30,000 people

Feb 20, 2025
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Hospitals want reimbursement for boarding psychiatric patients

Local health authorities say the move would cost them more and further confuse the question of who’s responsible for patients committed by a judge

Feb 20, 2025
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Sejal Hathi, the director of the Oregon Health Authority, has taken a part-time job seeing patients at Stanford University's teaching hospital in California. Hathi said she misses seeing patients, will work a weekend a month and is trying to restructure the position so she receives no pay. | STATE OF OREGON

Oregon Health Authority Director Sejal Hathi has taken a side job in California

Stanford University is touting its hire of Hathi, a prominent state official and a physician, to see patients at its teaching hospital. It's a paid position, but Hathi said she is talking to the university about how to avoid receiving compensation.

Feb 19, 2025

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Opinion: OHSU-Legacy merger would improve specialty care for children with heart disease, others

Higher volume centers provide better care, and the proposed deal would eliminate barriers that hurt outcomes, two OHSU pediatric cardiologists say

Feb 15, 2025

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A view of OHSU's South Waterfront campus from its main campus on Marquam Hill. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Wyden, Merkley, Bonamici join OHSU scientists to raise alarms over medical research cuts, others

A Trump administration effort to trim existing medical grants would carve as much as $80 million from Oregon Health & Science University, block life-saving research and cost jobs, critics say. Members of Oregon's congressional delegation want the public to speak out.

Feb 14, 2025

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Picket line near Providence St. Vincent Medical Center on Jan. 28, 2025. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

More than 4,000 striking Providence nurses will lose health coverage on March 1

Oregon's largest hospital system cited the length of the strike in a notice to nurses who've walked out from eight hospitals. The union accused Providence of delaying after members voted down a tentative deal.

Feb 13, 2025