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State Rep. Tawna Sanchez, D-Portland, chatting before a session of the Oregon House on March 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

With three digits and a cell phone tax, 988 seeks to transform crisis response

Despite hotline’s planned overhaul, some fear service gaps will handcuff success

Jun 29, 2023
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Two bottles of Buprenorphine-Naloxone, a drug used to treat opioid use disorder. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Once-resistant rural courts begin to embrace medications to treat addiction

A decade ago barely half of drug treatment courts offered medication treatment. By 2022, more than 90% of drug courts in communities with high opioid mortality rates said they allow buprenorphine and/or methadone.

Jun 29, 2023

Large red building, the Oregon State Hospital

Oregon State Hospital in Salem. | BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon State Hospital agreement would allow for flexibility on stay limits, pending judge’s sign-off

Jun 29, 2023

Baker City, Oregon. | KEN LUND, CC BY-SA 2.0

Baker City hospital to close only maternity ward for miles

Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City will close its maternity ward in an increasingly common cost-saving measure for rural hospitals

Jun 29, 2023

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Will the doctor see you now? The health system’s changing landscape

Jun 29, 2023

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How often do health insurers say no to patients? No one knows.

There’s nowhere that a consumer or an employer can go to look up all insurers’ denial rates — let alone whether a particular company is likely to decline to pay for procedures or drugs that its plans appear to cover

Jun 29, 2023

Ken Rush teaches a group of peer support mentors inside Origins Faith Community, a nonprofit in eastern Oregon that received funding through Measure 110 to start a peer support program and expand its services. | KYLE GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

More people accessing help under Measure 110 but gaps in services, data remain

New dashboard shows how $36.6 million was spent under the drug decriminalization law

Jun 28, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem. | OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY

Hospitals ask judge to reinstate lawsuit against Oregon for forced boarding

Large systems say federal judge erred in earlier dismissal of suit over patients civilly committed while experiencing mental illness

Jun 27, 2023
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A screen capture from a vide of the OHSU prairie vole experiments that was obtained by PETA through records requests. | OHSU

OHSU ordered to pay PETA’s legal costs after delaying release of drunken vole videos

The university will pay hefty fees in a case a judge said has important implications for Oregon Public Records Law

Jun 27, 2023

Kristie Fields, a cancer patient, was advised by a nurse to go on the local news and ask for help with her medical bills. Fields says she and her husband quickly dismissed the idea, concerned about stereotypes about Black people seeking aid. | SONJA FOSTER/KFF HEALTH NEWS

‘We’re not doing that’: Why a Black couple wouldn’t crowdfund to pay off medical debts

Black Americans use GoFundMe far less than white Americans, studies show, and those who do typically bring in less money.

Jun 27, 2023

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