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A top PeaceHealth executive repeatedly faulted emergency room physicians for admitting patients for what physicians felt was needed care, according to records kept by the doctors. When the doctors complained, the hospital system promptly moved to replace them.

The state’s oft-controversial rationing program for the Medicaid-funded Oregon Health Plan is proving hard to kill, with new federal guidance complicating state officials’ latest attempt to make it go away

One in 4 Oregon youth ages 12-17 have experienced a “major depressive episode” in the last 12 months — the second-highest rate in the country, according to the state