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Legislative Panel Approves $39.5 Million For Hospital Capacity Crisis

The money will boost staffing so patients can get appropriate care.

Sep 24, 2022
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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

In Columbia Gorge, A Small Hospital Turns To A Big System For Help

The proposed affiliation between Mid-Columbia Medical Center and California-based Adventist Health underscores the financial jam at some rural hospitals.

Sep 22, 2022

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Patient Satisfaction Surveys Earn A Zero On Tracking Whether Hospitals Deliver Culturally Competent Care

Researchers say surveys commonly used by hospitals could be far more useful by addressing cultural competence.

Sep 8, 2022

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OHSU STAFF IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AT OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY IN PORTLAND, ORE., IN AUGUST 2021./KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Oregon Nurses Say: ‘We’re Drowning’

With too many patients and too few colleagues, nurses say they are overwhelmed and more prone to mistakes.

Sep 6, 2022

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PROVIDENCE, A HEALTH SYSTEM WITH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS ACROSS THE WEST, INCLUDING PROVIDENCE ST. PATRICK HOSPITAL IN MISSOULA, MONTANA, REPORTED A NET OPERATING LOSS OF $510 MILLION FOR THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF 2022./KATHERYN HOUGHTON/KHN

Hospitals Cut Jobs And Services As Rising Costs Strain Budgets

Hospitals in Oregon, Montana, California, New York and elsewhere laid off workers and scaled back services this summer.

Aug 30, 2022

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St. Charles Health System in Bend. | COURTESY OF ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM

St. Charles Health System Reverses Course On Collecting Overpayments

The central Oregon provider ends its efforts to collect roughly $2 million from employees it overpaid.

Aug 29, 2022
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Officials Split Over Nurses’ Dissolving Union Membership In Eastern Oregon

The hospital says its nurses wanted out of the union, but the Oregon Nurses Association disagrees.

Aug 23, 2022

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$40 Million Requested To Ease Oregon’s Hospital Capacity Problems

A wide-ranging plan would put nurses in hospitals and long-term care facilities while offering incentives.

Aug 19, 2022
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KYLE KOPEC, BRADEN HEALTH’S CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER, HOLDS UP A SAMPLE OF DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES LEFT BEHIND AT A TENNESSEE HOSPITAL. AS THE COMPANY TAKES OVER ABANDONED HOSPITALS, A MAJOR TASK IS FIGURING OUT WHAT TO DO WITH OLD MEDICAL RECORDS STACKED IN BOXES./BLAKE FARMER/KAISER HEALTH NEWS

Local Governments Practically Giving Away Some Rural Hospitals

Some hospitals are in such bad shape, few companies are interested in buying them. And those that are willing don’t want to pay much, if anything.

Aug 18, 2022

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Financial Pressures Hammer Some Oregon Hospital Systems, Spare Others

As COVID-19 recedes and federal aid runs out, hospitals shakily try to find their balance in a new world of staffing shortages and rising expense.

Aug 9, 2022
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