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The Oregon House of Representatives convenes on inauguration day at the Capitol in Salem, Ore., Jan. 9, 2023. On Feb. 27, 2025, the House passes a bill to raise billions of federal dollars for Oregon's Medicaid program by a margin of 40-15, with six Republicans voting to approve.
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LaTasha Williams holds footprints from her daughter Essence, who lived only seven minutes after being born at just 20 weeks.
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Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center in June 2023 as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike.
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JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
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Oregon State Hospital.
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AMANDA LOMAN/SALEM REPORTER
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem.
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BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT
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Oregon State Hospital.
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AMANDA LOMAN/SALEM REPORTER
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The front desk of ARCHES Inn in Salem, a hotel turned shelter that is operated by Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action. The facility offers wildfire survivors, as well as chronically homeless and medically fragile people a short-term stay. Settings like this could be part of addressing delays in hospital discharges in Oregon.
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COURTESY/MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION
