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Using Medicaid data to track how 28 large hospitals meet health benchmarks, the state rewarded Adventist with $22.3 million, while Kaiser Westside received the smallest performance payment of $166,111

May 20, 2013 — As major hospital systems like Providence and Legacy have bought up ancillary medical centers, added more physical therapists to their payroll and expanded their own supply of medical imaging equipment, independent physical therapists and radiologists say they have seen their referrals dry up and their businesses decline.

Critics say financial incentives influenced the center’s decision to use a "living room style" of intake area which critics say invites attacks.

February 6, 2012 -- Technology is changing so quickly that state officials and advocates overseeing more streamlined transfers of health information in Oregon are scrambling to keep up. 2010 may not seem like that long ago, but from the perspective of a computer, it’s already the Stone Age. That was the year that the Community Leadership Council of the Archimedes Movement made recommendations on the state’s Strategic Plan for Health Information Exchange, which the federal government approved a few months later.