Washington State Prepares For COVID-19 Surge
The state’s hospitals are below maximum capacity for the moment, with COVID-19 patients in 3% of hospital beds.
The state’s hospitals are below maximum capacity for the moment, with COVID-19 patients in 3% of hospital beds.
Vancouver, Washington-based PeaceHealth plans to lay off 40 people in Lane County.
A PeaceHealth spokesman said the layoffs will be spread across its four hospitals in the county.
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Moving swiftly, a federal judge found that health insurers Trillium Community Health Plan and Health Net Health Plan had likely misled consumers about their Medicare Advantage plans for 2020 and ordered the two companies to post clarifying statements on their websites and send clarifying informat
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PeaceHealth has filed suit against Trillium Community Health Plan and its affiliate, Health Net Health Plan of Oregon, alleging the two insurers engaged in false advertising by touting their Medicare Advantage plans for 2020 as including PeaceHealth as an in-network provider.
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Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth has laid off 50 people and created 15 new positions as it streamlines its “support services structure,” the non-profit hospital system said Thursday in response to questions from The Lund Report.
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Advocates battling PeaceHealth’s looming closure of its standalone Nurse Midwifery Birth Center in Springfield are not giving up.
Six months after buying health care clinic chain ZoomCare, PeaceHealth has installed one of its own executives as CEO of the business, which has rapid-service clinics in the Portland and Seattle metro areas.
An Oregon Coast resident is suing PeaceHealth for negligence over a permanent spinal cord injury following a neck operation.
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PeaceHealth’s decision to close its RiverBend Nurse Midwifery Birth Center in Springfield and terminate the center’s roughly 20 nurse midwives and other employees illustrates the tenuous position of midwives in the health care system.
A family of a Veneta man who died after successive treatments by PeaceHealth physicians is suing the hospital group for more than $1 million.