It was a year in which the health care community had hoped to recuperate. Instead, Oregon and southwest Washington saw major changes affecting workers, patients, insurers, state officials and health systems.
Dec 21, 2023
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Providence Portland Medical Center.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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