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Nurses and others gathered in downtown Oregon City on May 11, 2022 for an informational picket about contract negotiations with Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center. | COURTESY OREGON NURSES ASSOCIATION

Nurses At 2 More Providence Hospitals Authorize Strike

More than 2,000 nurses can now strike at three hospitals, upping the pressure on Oregon’s largest health system.

Jun 3, 2022
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Providence Pays $22.7 Million To Settle Whistleblower Complaint

A doctor’s investigation of his colleagues sparked a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into allegations of fraudulent billing in Washington state.

Apr 14, 2022
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An employee of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services helps a consumer pick a health care plan on the federal online health insurance marketplace. | DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND BUSINESS SERVICES

Comment period extended as concerns grow over new health plan's effects

Kaiser Permanente is urging the state to pause the Basic Health Program, which would extend Oregon Health Plan-style benefits to more than 90,000 people, to address premium hikes that would hit tens of thousands of other Oregonians

Jun 13, 2023
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The Capitol Building in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Health care legislation back on Senate agenda as impasse ends

The Senate has less than a week to finish a long legislative to-do list that includes hospital staffing, funding a crisis line and more

Jun 20, 2023
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A woman at an acupuncture clinic. | SHUTTERSTOCK

With deep debt and low-paying jobs, Portland alternative medicine graduates say their degrees will never pay off

The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine is closing. Its graduates face one of the worst combinations of high debt and low earnings in the country.

Aug 29, 2024

Greenlick Fights to Defend CCO Reforms in House Rules Committee

The House Health Chairman now hopes to pass a compromise arrangement brokered by House Speaker Tina Kotek that would allow the Oregon Health Authority to set the rules to protect the state’s Medicaid reserves from Wall Street poaching and make sure those tax dollars are spent on community health.

May 5, 2017

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