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A top health official at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver said he doesn’t know how COVID-19 spread from one patient to another 29 people, including 18 additional patients.

There is disagreement whether new requirements for hospitals to post price information will curtail prices and create better-informed consumers.

Oregon’s vaccine rollout has been slow and inconsistent, with hospitals setting different policies on who to inoculate in the first round.

The Oregon Health Authority wants the public to be able to weigh in on proposed mergers and acquisitions, a proposal that advocates support.

The state is only allowing health care workers to be vaccinated -- not all employees of a hospital like Oregon.