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As one of three chaplains at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, Ann Marie Hardin’s job is to walk around the hospital and talk to health care workers.

The state has granted fewer beds than the company sought, and the facility must devote nearly half its beds to mental health patients from hospital ERs and other secure facilities.

A former OB-GYN at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital says the revocation of his privileges and an investigation into his conduct were a sham.

Over the last decade hospitals have shuttered children’s wards and expanded the number of beds available for more profitable endeavors.

The House Health Committee is pushing two simple but possibly life-changing bills for the state’s neediest residents, allowing homeless people to get free copies of their birth certificates and steering Oregon State Hospital officials to sign up patients for federal assistance as they leave the mental hospital.