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PEBB Raises State Employee Costs for Out-of-Network Hospitals

Meanwhile, the board voted to scale back increases for other non-contracted providers rather than shift cost for these services to state workers. After meeting tight budget restraints for several years, PEBB saw costs soar in 2016 to 7 percent.

Oct 17, 2017

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The country’s leading COVID-19 variant is still rare in Oregon

Omicron EG.5 has become the U.S.’s most dominant variant, making up nearly a quarter of national cases

Oct 26, 2023

COURTESY OF OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Opinion: OHSU-Legacy merger would improve specialty care for children with heart disease, others

Higher volume centers provide better care, and the proposed deal would eliminate barriers that hurt outcomes, two OHSU pediatric cardiologists say

Feb 15

A health care worker pushes a gurney passed other workers in blue scrubs inside a hospital through a corridor.

Inside Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland. | LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon Sees Nursing School Applications Dry Up: Report

A new report confirms Oregon’s nursing shortage and points to long-term challenges in producing new nurses.

Dec 8, 2022
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Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Nan Waller in her office on Thursday, February 9th, 2023. | JORDAN GALE/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Multnomah County judge in center of Oregon’s mental health crisis

Nan Waller, a homegrown judge, helps suspects find mental health treatment while also overseeing hundreds of competency hearings a year

Sep 12, 2023

Students at the OHSU School of Nursing Ashland Campus learn, practice and refine nursing skills at the campus’ Simulation and Clinical Learning Center. | COURTESY OF OHSU/ALLEN HALLMARK