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June 20, 2013—The Oregon Patient Safety Commission has quickly learned that the process to create a new, voluntary program designed to reform medical malpractice will be a marathon, not a sprint.

Last year, The Lund Report analyzed the profitability, net income and charity care of Oregon hospitals, and found that the Providence chain’s eight hospitals spent $192.6 million in charity care in 2012, up 14.3%, while its net income fell to $155.6 million.

Lawmakers will face the state budget crisis in a different special session, possibly as soon as July.