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
Dec 12, 2023
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A patient room at the OHSU Center for Women's Health
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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 State Hospital in Salem.
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OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY
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
Advisory committee says Oregon should reject the absorption of the low-income care provider by a California entity unless clear information is provided
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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Providence Portland Medical Center.
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