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Private equity firms have acquired more than 1,000 disability and elder care providers in recent years, attracting more money from Medicaid and alarm from watchdogs

Oregon hospital systems can’t complain about costly and difficult patients while advocating for their civil rights, a federal ruling says

A review board on Monday will consider whether to recommend state approval of the proposed merger between Oregon Health & Science University and Legacy Health. Critics say the newly dominant health care powerhouse in greater Portland would inevitably jack up costs, but supporters say it would help care.

In a new filing, Disability Rights Oregon says some judges and other officials are thwarting a federal court order intended to open up beds at the state psychiatric facility

Hospital behavioral health units are chronic money losers because insurers fail to cover the full cost of care

Many homeless people are finding themselves in a sort of medical in-between: not sick enough for the hospital, but not well enough to take care of themselves on the streets. Medical respite programs are trying to fill this gap.

A seamster at the Salem psychiatric facility gives patients a little more control over something that’s easy to take for granted: how they dress