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More Oregon students are missing vaccines, worrying health officials

Oregon had the second highest nonmedical exemption rate in the country in the last school year — after only Idaho — and the rate of kindergartners with a nonmedical exemption has been going up

May 23, 2024

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. | COURTESY OF PEACEHEALTH

PeaceHealth, other hospitals’ cuts diminish communities’ access to care

PeaceHealth, facing chronic financial losses, is following a national trend of trimming jobs and services

May 4, 2023
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State: New and expecting parents with chickens should consider infection risks

A new Oregon study highlights a case investigated with Crook County in which the baby was born 150 miles away from the chickens that infected it — but had to be readmitted due to a serious Salmonella infection just days later

Apr 16, 2024

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Oregon officials, experts grappled behind the scenes with youth gender-affirming care guideline

Records show how state medical advisors decided questions around youth transgender care were outweighed by a state law ensuring access

Dec 12, 2024

Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem is a maximum-security prison. | COURTESY OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.

Former Oregon inmate sues corrections agency, alleging it failed to fix a broken middle finger

Benjamin K. Vesa’s lawsuit alleges doctors told him his finger cannot move properly because the prison delayed care for months

Nov 5, 2024

Senate Clears Hospital Price Controls for Public Worker Health Plans

The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems successfully lobbied to kill a measure to pay property taxes on clinics, a bill expanding hours at ambulatory surgery centers and a measure to make nonprofit hospitals to pay more on charity care -- but intense lobbying failed to block an end to price-gouging at OEBB and PEBB.

Jul 7, 2017

Oregon awarded a “B” on health care price transparency—but the state is still failing consumers

Jul 29, 2016

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