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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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A cot and medical supplies fill an ambulance. | PHOTO COPYRIGHT: PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP/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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Nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association through the Association of University Registered Nurses and their supporters crowded into Elizabeth Caruthers Park on Sept. 18, 2023 to announce they were prepared to strike as negotiations with Oregon Health & Science University remain at a stalemate. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Nurses, unions say ethics code revision on strikes helps hospitals

A proposed national ethics code revamp calls for nurses to make sure patient care is adequate even when they strike; in response, unions in Oregon, Washington and Montana have mounted an opposition campaign while saying care is the employer’s responsibility
Aug 8, 2024
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An AMR ambulance at Legacy Health Good Samaritan Medical Center in Northwest Portland, Ore., on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Multnomah County to forgive $7 million in fines if AMR improves response times

Officials will relax paramedic staffing requirements in return for the private equity—owned firm's agreement to deploy more ambulances and stop violating response-time requirements
Aug 1, 2024
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Nurses and supporters picket outside of Providence Milwaukie Hospital on June 18, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Providence nurses will remain on picket lines even as strike officially ends

The Oregon Nurses Association accused Providence of illegally locking its members out of their workplaces. Providence said the “union talks one way, acts another.”
Jun 20, 2024
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Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center in June 2023 as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Updated: Providence, nurses union trade barbs as strike launches at six hospitals

As largest-ever Oregon hospital strike begins, the hospital system says the union endangers patients by trying to cut off access to supplies and temporary workers; union calls complaint ironic
Jun 14, 2024
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