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Salem Hospital Receives National 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals Award

Jan 31, 2018

Private equity and large corporations have a complicated and not always noticed presence in health care. A bill limiting the corporate practice of medicine failed to pass the Oregon Legislature despite broad support. | SHUTTERSTOCK

What killed the Oregon effort to curb corporate medicine?

Concerns over big business in health care propelled a rookie lawmaker’s bill through the House before opponents entangled it in delay, objections

Mar 12, 2024

The Oregon Health Authority in Salem. | OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY

Kotek taps OHSU lobbyist to help run Oregon Health Authority

State will pay Oregon Health & Science University $20,000 monthly for its employee’s services

Mar 23, 2023
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Latest Healthcare-associated Infections Report Shows Marked Improvement in Hospital Patient Safety

Nov 2, 2017

Oregon Health & Science University primarily trains its OB/GYN residents at OHSU Hospital and the Center for Women’s Health in southwest Portland. | COURTESY OHSU

Nurses union to picket Oregon Health & Science University as contract negotiations continue

The picket comes nearly a week after nurses concluded a limited strike at another health system. Nurses say staffing is a key issue .

Jun 29, 2023

State Health Improvement Plan Requires Strong Statewide Relationships

To kick off Public Health Week, the Oregon Health Authority pondered its State Health Improvement Plan -- from low-tech communicable disease interventions such as washing hands and food, taking shoes off outside and consuming only dairy products that have been pasteurized to more complex teaming up with partners to fight tobacco industry-backed efforts on retail tobacco sales, and pushing for vaccinations, fluoridation, opioid prescribing coordination and suicide prevention.

Apr 6, 2016