Search

Oregon's 2013 Rate of Vaccine-Exempted Kindergartners Increases Statewide Over 2012

Oregon’s 2013 newly announced 6.4 percent rate of kindergartners who are exempted for religious reasons tops the 2012 rate; Coalition for Senate Bill 132 confirms need for legislation

May 7, 2013

Former Gov. John Kitzhaber speaks Sept. 29, 2022, at CCO Oregon's annual conference at the Salem Convention Center. | BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Kitzhaber Urges Health Care Unity In Face Of Brewing Storm

Former governor sounds a note of alarm at CCO Oregon’s annual conference, urging collaboration for the common good.

Sep 30, 2022
Premium

Legislature Approves $34 Million in Health and Human Services Spending

The money comes from a $40 million pot the state had set aside as the Legislature pushed the executive branch to rein in spending. But the unsustainable growth of the Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services will loom over the 2017 session.

Dec 14, 2016

SHUTTERSTOCK

Post-Roe abortion bans force pregnant people with life-threatening complications to travel

Idaho woman traveled to Oregon to terminate pregnancy with fatal fetal anomalies

May 16, 2023

people hold signs along a street as cars pass by, one sign says 'people not profits'

Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center on Monday, June 19 as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT