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Heat wave expected to hit Oregon on Sunday

Officials are urging people to prepare and to consider advice to prevent illness

Jun 11

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Oregon State Hospital close to meeting terms in civil rights case

Now that a federal judge has placed restrictions on who the hospital can admit and how long they stay, the psychiatric institution is expected to finally satisfy a long-standing court order to keep criminal defendants from languishing in jails.

Jun 11
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Kathie Hightower in her home in Nehalem. When her husband was dying of a rare form of cancer, community support helped her get through the challenges. She's one of a group of volunteers training to do end-of-life caregiving in Oregon's rural coastal communities. | RACHEL MILLER-HOWARD/THE LUND REPORT

As rural Oregon ages, communities turn to volunteers for death care

People in Tillamook County are trying to elevate their communities’ awareness of death and dying

Jun 11
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Panelists discuss the upcoming Medicaid changes at the Oregon Health Forum on June 9, 2026. | NICK BUDNICK/THE LUND REPORT

Pandemic response holds lessons as Medicaid work rules approach

Providers, officials, advocates agree collaboration is needed, but tough choices lie ahead as federal changes reduce coverage and hurt access

Jun 9

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Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford in June, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Feds find Asante violated labor law

The National Labor Relations Board says the southern Oregon health system needs to follow labor law and recognize its workers’ decision three years ago to unionize

Jun 4
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Nurses blast state approval of Providence spinoff of home health and hospice to for-profit

The Oregon Nurses Association said the state needs to tighten conditions on the deal between Providence Home Health and Hospice and Compassus, a for-profit Tennessee-based company partly owned by a private equity firm

Jun 4
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Gov. Tina Kotek speaks to reporters at a press event in April 2023 in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon health officials scramble to meet deadline on Medicaid work rules

Having worked to get a jump on a looming January deadline, Oregon now faces a major setback in adjusting to new rules released this week. A group of governors led by Kotek is calling for more time

Jun 4
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, on Nov. 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Judge’s curb on admissions should reduce state hospital contempt fines

Mentally ill defendants charged with lower-level crimes won’t be admitted to the state psychiatric institution anymore under a new federal ruling intended to reduce civil rights violations

Jun 2
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Oregon doctor convicted in fatal hit-and-run was already under medical board investigation

Kenneth Kolarsky, a Silverton ER doc, had faced pending state discipline over alleged prescribing violations before being sentenced to 13 months in prison

Jun 2
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A doctor visits an elderly patient. | MARC ST. GIL, PUBLIC DOMAIN, VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Florida-based bid to take over Housecall Providers under state review

Years of losses by the home-based primary care and hospice provider had become too much for CareOregon, its nonprofit parent, to offset

Jun 2
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