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OHSU's main campus in Portland in September, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Months after controversial changes, OHSU losses are lower than expected

OSHU’s decision to send pink slips to 500 people was intended to improve a bleak budget outlook, but despite added layoff costs in recent months the university’s finances have performed better than expected.
Sep 26, 2024
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Dr. Matthias Merkel, OHSU senior associate chief medical officer for capacity management and patient flow, and Stephanie Gilliam, director of OHSU Mission Control, give a tour of the newly remodeled nerve center for a program that tracks and coordinates hospital resources on Sept. 17, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

‘Mission control’ center seeks to get Oregonians hospital care quicker

Supported by state and federal grants, Oregon Health & Science University is leading a statewide hospital data-sharing collaboration intended to improve care
Sep 17, 2024
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The front desk of ARCHES Inn in Salem, a hotel turned shelter that is operated by Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action. The facility offers wildfire survivors, as well as chronically homeless and medically fragile people a short-term stay. Settings like this could be part of addressing delays in hospital discharges in Oregon. | COURTESY/MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION

Solutions floated for Oregon’s hospital boarding problem

Using hospitals to hold people who don’t need to be in a hospital is having ripple effects across the state’s health care system
Sep 12, 2024
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Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. | OHSU

OHSU, Legacy report new losses as merger bid looms

Two hospital systems want to form a new Oregon power player and promised no immediate layoffs while arguing a merger will help improve their financial fortunes
Sep 12, 2024
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Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles is tentatively being absorbed by California-based Adventist Health. | PHOTO BY LARVICK MEDIA/COURTESY OF MCMC

State seeks input on Columbia Gorge hospital, Gentiva hospice care

Well after the purchases of Mid-Columbia Medical Center and Kindred Hospice by Adventist Health and a private equity firm, respectively, officials want to know how they are doing
Aug 29, 2024
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Sushant Puri, MBBS, left, and Huan Vo, M.D., began work in August in OHSU's neuro-oncology program | COURTESY/OHSU PHOTOGRAPHER CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS

OHSU beefs up care with brain cancer hires

Neuro-oncologists are few in number, but after losing one to Providence, Oregon Health & Science University has hired two to help coordinate care.
Aug 29, 2024
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Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay. | COURTESY BAY AREA HOSPITAL.

Eight health systems want to operate Oregon's largest coastal hospital in Coos Bay

Bay Area Hospital leaders say they have at least eight outside hospital operators, including some high-profile in-state ones, that want to enter into an agreement to operate the 172-bed facility. But staff, providers and community members have mixed feelings, a new survey shows.
Aug 20, 2024
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interior of an ambulance shows an empty gurney
A cot and medical supplies fill an ambulance. | PHOTO COPYRIGHT: PORTLAND TRIBUNE/ANNA DEL SAVIO (USED WITH PERMISSION)

Harney County Health District sued for $1 million

Suit claims ambulance did not follow directions from the patient's family, instead using GPS and causing a 2-hour delay
Aug 15, 2024
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