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Gov. Kate Brown expanded an executive order to give hospitals more flexibility in caring for the high numbers of very ill patients.

A top federal official visited Oregon for the first time, checking on the state’s response to the pandemic, behavioral health care and workforce shortages.

Some urban hospitals have consolidated services over the state’s vaccine mandate, but they’re continuing to admit patients, perform necessary surgeries and conduct lab tests.

Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer, D-Portland, has another bill this year to help the state’s midwives practice their time-honored profession -- this one requiring hospitals that let nurse midwives practice to also give them the ability to admit patients and share in the rights and responsibilities of other providers.