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OHSU pauses recruiting foreign-born students after U.S. raises barrier for specialized immigrant visas

Trump said the U.S. will impose a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applicants. OHSU has about 250 people working under the specialized visa program.

Oct 20, 2025
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Legacy closed it's West Linn Urgent Care, above, in 2021. Now the nonprofit says it will close six more urgent care sites in Portland and Clark County. | COURTESY LEGACY GOHEALTH

Six Legacy/GoHealth urgent care clinics in Portland and Clark County to close

The struggling Oregon-based health system is limiting or shuttering other programs, too, and it’s not clear how many employees and patients will be affected

Oct 16, 2025
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Providence, Oregon's largest hospital provider, is closing four Portland-area occupational health clinics. They tend to be heavily used by other health care-related businesses for everything from workplace injuries to drug screening. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Providence closing four Portland-area occupational health clinics

The latest cuts by the health care giant are likely to hurt the thousands of businesses that have depended on its services for drug tests and workplace injuries

Oct 14, 2025
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A view of OHSU's South Waterfront campus in September 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

OHSU prof files $1.5 million defamation suit against AFSCME

A researcher of neurological diseases says a union campaign accusing her of misconduct is false and hurting her career; the union representing postdoc researchers has claimed she's in the wrong

Sep 26, 2025
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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

Adventist Health wants to cut hospital beds in The Dalles to boost reimbursements

Adventist Health, which promised to maintain services if the state approved its takeover of a community hospital in The Dalles, has asked for permission to cut beds there by nearly half to secure higher Medicare rates through a federal rural hospital program

Sep 26, 2025
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St. Charles Health System in Bend. | COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM

St. Charles Health will stay in-network for Cigna, Aetna insurance

With contract standoffs resolved, more than 12,000 St. Charles patients won't have to worry about additional fees to get care at the Central Oregon health system.

Sep 23, 2025

Legacy Emanuel Medical Center on North Graham Street in Portland. | LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT

Legacy Health seeks new CEO as Portland-based system battles financial challenges

Independent seven-hospital system has retained a national search firm in what its leadership calls a “defining moment”

Sep 23, 2025
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Rep. Cyrus Javadi speaking on the floor of the Oregon House in 2025 | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Q&A: Rep. Cyrus Javadi, a health care player in Salem, changes parties

The Tillamook dentist, who faced an uprising in his own party over some of his votes, is now a Democrat. He says the change won’t alter his focus on the health of Oregon’s health care system.

Sep 9, 2025
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The emergency department at Legacy Good Samaritan hospital in Portland on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Continued challenges at Legacy trigger drop in financial health grade

A prominent bond ratings agency says that despite some improvements Legacy needs to curb its worrisome loss of reserves. The system cites low government reimbursements and high costs for charity care and labor

Sep 2, 2025
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Oregon nurses rally to save maternity centers

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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