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Hundreds of millions are being siphoned out of Oregon Health Plan

With more withdrawals on the horizon, some health leaders say it’s time to curb the flow of profits being pulled out of the state’s health program for low-income Oregonians

Dec 19, 2023

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

Feds' threat to decertify state hospital over safety is not the first

Inspectors fault state hospital for adopting bad policies and then not following them, as well as unlocked doors and unsupervised patients. State leadership say they're addressing the issues.

Dec 14, 2023
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Former Oregon governor John Kitzhaber opposes CareOregon merger

Influential health leader says the Oregon nonprofit's absorption by a California Medicare insurer would undermine care for low-income people. Leadership of the two entities say the critics are off-base.

Dec 14, 2023
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Elizabeth Flick, a seamster, inside the clothes store at Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon on Nov. 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

With a sewing machine and creativity, state hospital seamster helps patients on journey

A seamster at the Salem psychiatric facility gives patients a little more control over something that’s easy to take for granted: how they dress

Dec 14, 2023

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Legacy Health employees are unionizing at blinding speed

More groups of employees across the eight-hospital system are moving to join unions even as their management talks to OHSU about potentially being absorbed

Dec 12, 2023
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A patient room at the OHSU Center for Women's Health | COURTESY OF OHSU

OHSU privatizing fertility services as San Francisco company opens clinic in Portland

OHSU will lay off some employees and 'lease’ physicians to Spring Fertility when the private equity—backed firm opens a new facility in Northwest Portland, potentially meaning a smaller waitlist for would-be parents

Dec 12, 2023
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Oregon hospital systems file new appeal to pressure state on psychiatric care

New filing contends a federal judge in Portland wrongly dismissed an earlier case related to the Oregon State Hospital

Dec 7, 2023
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Tripledemic's sequel likely won’t be as bad for Oregon, expert says

New waves of COVID, RSV and the flu are headed this way, but a top expert forecasts less of an impact on most Oregonians and the state’s hospitals compared to 12 months ago

Dec 7, 2023
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State panel recommends against CareOregon merger

Advisory committee says Oregon should reject the absorption of the low-income care provider by a California entity unless clear information is provided

Dec 6, 2023
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State panel may come out against CareOregon merger

Oregon advisory committee will consider a draft recommendation saying the nonprofit’s absorption into a California entity could harm low-income Oregonians and shouldn’t be approved

Dec 5, 2023
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