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Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center
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Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center in June 2023 as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike.
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Becky Hultberg, president and CEO of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, speaks at a bill signing event in Salem, Ore., on Aug. 15, 2023.
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Oregon State Capitol in Salem.
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Salem Hospital
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Aliza Kaplan, a criminal defense attorney and a Lewis and Clark Law School professor, says providing incarcerated people with Medicaid-funded health care before their release would help individuals “hit the ground running.” One 2023 study found that formerly incarcerated Oregonians are 10 times more likely to experience an opioid overdose in their first two weeks outside prison compared to the general public.
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A pile of flowers and a note eulogizing Bobby Smallwood, a security officer for Legacy Health, sit outside the Good Samaritan Medical Center, where he was killed during a confrontation on July 30, 2023.
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