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Tony Neves, an urgent care technician, wheels Julianne Upton out of the Valley Immediate Care clinic in Central Point outside Medford after treatment for a knee injury on Oct. 23, 2025. Another staff member, technician Savannah Hixs, holds the door. The company operates six urgent care clinics in southern Oregon. | COURTESY OF VALLEY IMMEDIATE CARE

Oregon patients turn to urgent care as primary care suffers

The doubling of urgent care clinics in the past 10 years worries some health experts, who say the trend masks the state’s lack of support for family medicine docs and general practitioners
Jan 15
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Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center on Monday as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon nurses union grapples with growing pains, contested election

In one of the state's most powerful health care unions, would-be reformers are running on a platform of change while calling leadership out-of-touch. An opposing slate of candidates stresses unity while taking a more moderate tone.
Jan 8
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Medical supply kit in Portland 2024
Medical supplies at a clinic in Portland in December 2024. A new report found that many Oregonians experience medical errors without some form of acknowledgement of the harm the issue caused. | RIAN DUNDON|OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Health care providers failed to inform most victims of medical error in Oregon, report says

Oregon Patient Safety Commission report gives no examples, but says 52 percent of medical errors in Oregon occurred in hospitals
Sep 23, 2025
Melissa Keele brought her son to a psychiatric hospital and he was discharged 102 minutes later. He has spiraled since then, cycling in and out of hospitals and jails. | RACHEL WOOLF FOR PROPUBLICA

Psychiatric hospitals turn away patients who need urgent care. The facilities face few consequences.

Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
Oct 9, 2025
Inside state hospital
A white board in a hallway inside the Oregon State Hospital in November 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Judge overseeing state hospital case demands answers as contempt order looms

The state's failure to provide adequate mental health treatment is having ripple effects around the state and causing civil rights violations. U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson wants to know specifically what is being done to fix things.
Jan 23, 2025
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Melissa Keele brought her son to a psychiatric hospital, which discharged him almost immediately.
Melissa Keele brought her son to a psychiatric hospital and he was discharged 102 minutes later. He has spiraled since then, cycling in and out of hospitals and jails. | RACHEL WOOLF | PROPUBLICA

Psychiatric hospitals turn away patients who need urgent care. The facilities face few consequences.

Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
Oct 2, 2025
Panelists including CMMS administrator Mehmet Oz speak to audience Nov. 6, 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz (right) with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary (center) and Esther Krofah, executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, at a Milken Institute event on Nov. 6, 2025. | SARAH JANE TRIBBLE|KFF HEALTH NEWS

Concerns over fairness, access rise as states compete for slice of $50B rural health fund

Will the rural health fund be a lifeline for beleaguered rural communities, or will it be a 'slush fund,' as some critics fear?
Nov 13, 2025

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