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A pile of flowers and a note eulogizing Bobby Smallwood, a security officer for Legacy Health, sit outside the Good Samaritan Medical Center, where he was killed during a confrontation on July 30, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Attacks on emergency room workers prompt debate over tougher penalties

With assaults on health care workers increasing, legislation echoing failed Oregon bill is pending in California

Apr 4, 2024

Brick hospital building with road going under sky bridge

Salem Health Salem Hospital. | BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Kaiser Permanente Blasts 30% Price Hikes Sought By Salem Health

The request comes at a time when the state is trying to curb health care costs but Salem Health says it is trying to make up for a lag in prices in the past.

Oct 14, 2020
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Providence Health & Services Reaped Profits of $1.22 Billion after Buying Swedish Hospitals

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.

Jun 24, 2015

MEMBERS OF THE COLLECTIVE OF INDIGENOUS INTERPRETERS OF OREGON AFTER THEIR GRADUATION CEREMONY AT PORTLAND CENTER STAGE AT THE ARMORY IN DECEMBER./COURTESY OF PUEBLO UNIDO

More Oregonians speak Indigenous languages, but health care interpreters are lacking

Groups are joining with Legacy Health to ask lawmakers to beef up the training and accreditation program for interpreters to help people access care, other services

May 1, 2025
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New Taxes Could Fill Medicaid Budget Hole

The Oregon Center for Public Policy issued a report today calling upon the Legislature to consider taxes on healthcare practitioners and ambulatory surgical centers.

Jan 18, 2017

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