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A legislative task force studying the public health impacts of alcohol abuse and whether to raise alcohol taxes for addiction treatment has ended its work without endorsing any specific recommendations.

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. 

Unit in Washington County had low patient volumes; patients will be transported to larger units at Doernbecher and Randall children’s hospitals. Nurses union blasts the decision.

Democrats, with a few Republicans, have approved Senate Bill 605 in successive votes

Providence is still in mediation with striking nurses at all eight of its hospitals in Oregon, and with hospitalists at St. Vincent Medical Center. The tentative deal only involves two out the 11 bargaining units involved in the strike.

The alleged assailant had previously received services at the health center without incident, according to a court filing