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Oregon State Hospital patients settle into Junction City and Salem campuses; Portland campus closes

Mar 31, 2015

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State funds $13 million to improve medication-assisted treatment at Oregon's jails

New treatment providers around the state will be funded to combat opioid use disorder, including at jails, clinics and hospitals, with help from Oregon Health & Science University

Jul 23, 2024
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Oregon State Hospital. | AMANDA LOMAN/SALEM REPORTER

State Hospital Shifts Managers To Nursing Work To Cope

Oregon State Hospital leaders have still received no response on deploying the National Guard to aid with a staffing crisis, but the Oregon Office of Emergency Management is seeking civilians to help.

Jun 1, 2021

The front desk of ARCHES Inn in Salem, a hotel turned shelter that is operated by Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action. The facility offers wildfire survivors, as well as chronically homeless and medically fragile people a short-term stay. Settings like this could be part of addressing delays in hospital discharges in Oregon. | COURTESY/MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION

Solutions floated for Oregon’s hospital boarding problem

Using hospitals to hold people who don’t need to be in a hospital is having ripple effects across the state’s health care system

Sep 12, 2024
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Oregon bill that aims to ensure vaccine coverage draws mixed response

The proposal would give a top health official the authority to essentially write a statewide vaccine prescription that requires insurers pay for vaccines, but opponents say the measure could interfere with their rights

Feb 11
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Legacy Health names new president, CEO

Dr. Susan Huang, a Providence executive, will take over the hospital system at a challenging time, amid industry-wide financial challenges and rising costs

Apr 2
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Bruce Goldberg is pictured between Oregon Health Authority Director Sejal Hathi and former Gov. John Kitzhaber at a panel discussion hosted by the Oregon Health Forum last year. | JAKE THOMAS

Kotek taps Oregon Health Plan reformer to help with response to federal cuts

Bruce Goldberg, a physician who helped develop state reforms that drew national acclaim, will assist the governor's office as it wrestles with federal Medicaid reductions expected to strip millions of their coverage and harm struggling rural hospitals

Oct 9, 2025
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