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Hospital chains report overall profit growth in Oregon, with Asante’s newest hospital in Ashland still experiencing net losses, and full-year figures for Kaiser Westside Medical Center available for the first time

June 2, 2010 --Unwilling to accept defeat, Columbia Health District is once again attempting to convince state officials that there’s a need for a 12-bed hospital in St. Helens. But the process is ripe with contention. Residents who’ve opposed the hospital in the past are likely to raise the same concerns – questioning whether the hospital can sustain itself financially and meet the needs of the community – at a public hearing later this month.

That figure represented 150 executives who worked in Oregon’s nonprofit hospitals