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Oregon hospitals back bill to compensate them for patients with nowhere to go

Patients are increasingly stuck in hospitals due to shortages at long-term care facilities. Hospitals want the state to staunch their red ink.

Feb 7, 2023
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Oregon State Capitol in Salem. | RENAUDE HATSEDAKIS

Bills Would Target Mergers Among Hospital Systems, Clinic Networks, Others

The Oregon Health Authority wants the public to be able to weigh in on proposed mergers and acquisitions, a proposal that advocates support.

Jan 5, 2021
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Sara Barger, executive manager and policy liaison for 4D Recovery, visits with Mitch Wright, 31, in a recovery house in Gresham on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Wright, one of the house’s residents, said the house’s structure helped him turn his life around after drug addiction. | BEN BOTKIN/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Recovery houses in Oregon provide crucial transition in path toward drug-free life

Oregon lawmakers poised to allocate $18 million this session to help them grow

Mar 5, 2024

Universal Health Services, which owns Cedar Hills Hospital in Portland, wants to build another psychiatric facility in Wilsonville. | COURTESY OF CEDAR HILLS HOSPITAL

Controversial Psychiatric Hospital Project Up For Public Comment

Under Oregon’s certificate of need process, critics and supporters will likely put the 100-bed project in Wilsonville, first proposed in 2016, under a microscope.

Mar 17, 2021
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MICHELLE FULLINGTON HAS BEEN PUTTING TOGETHER SNACKS FOR STAFF AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE'S BEEN LIVING DUE TO HER DAUGHTER'S HEALTH ISSUES./COURTESY OF MICHELLE FULLINGTON/MEDICAL MOTHERHOOD

Mother Living In Hospital Finds A Way To Help During COVID Surge

Nurses say they are at their breaking point and would love public support.

Oct 7, 2021

Tents in downtown Portland on March 14, 2022. | SHUTTERSTOCK

State lawmakers eye forced treatment to address overlap in homelessness and mental illness

A pair of bills in Oregon would have expanded the criteria for involuntary commitment, though they failed to move forward this session. In California, similar bills are garnering more support.

May 18, 2023

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