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Oregon Medical Board’s latest anti-discrimination rule sparks advocate’s bias concern

The Oregon Medical Board scaled back the rule in response to physicians’ concerns, but Disability Rights Oregon says the new version could permit discrimination against patients with disabilities

Sep 3, 2024
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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

State seeks input on Columbia Gorge hospital, Gentiva hospice care

Well after the purchases of Mid-Columbia Medical Center and Kindred Hospice by Adventist Health and a private equity firm, respectively, officials want to know how they are doing

Aug 29, 2024
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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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Q&A: Call them what you want, Tara Foley says Oregon PAs have a big impact on care

Earlier this year Oregon lawmakers renamed physician assistants to be associates, and one PA says that’s appropriate — if a little challenging to explain

Aug 29, 2024
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For-profit Idaho home health powerhouse seeks expansion in Oregon

Pennant Group wants to acquire home health and hospice agencies from Signature Group, an affiliate of Avamere Health

Aug 27, 2024
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A Fred Meyer store in Tigard, Oregon. Kroger owns the Fred Meyer brand. | TADA IMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK

Pharmacies hang in the balance as a Portland federal judge considers Kroger-Albertsons merger

Two supermarket chains want to merge while selling off 62 stores in Oregon, but regulators say the company that would buy them has scant experience running pharmacies and consumers could be the losers

Aug 27, 2024
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Feds question safety at Oregon State Hospital yet again after patient overdose

The latest in a string of reports questioning the Oregon Health Authority's management of the state's secure psychiatric hospital suggests smuggled fentanyl killed a patient in May

Aug 26, 2024

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Advisory committee members sought for Oregon’s ‘bridge’ health plan

A new committee will advise the state on the operation of a program launched in July. OHP Bridge extends benefits similar to those of the Oregon Health Plan to people who make 200% of federal poverty level or less.

Aug 22, 2024
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Evan Saulino, clinical director of Comagine Health, speaks about physician burnout and administrative chores that he and others say are weighing down primary care in Oregon. His remarks were part of the Oregon Health Forum, an event held on August 21, 2024, at the Multnomah Athletic Club and moderated by journalist Emily Harris. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Excessive administrative chores are burning out primary care doctors, panel says

Official state numbers portray Oregon as faring relatively well in primary care, but providers say the system is failing them and needs change.

Aug 22, 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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