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A file photo of White Bird Clinic on E 12th Ave in downtown Eugene, Nov. 2024. | NATHAN WILK/KLCC

White Bird agrees to settlement in CAHOOTS retaliation lawsuit

An investigation by the Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries last year found White Bird had engaged in “severe sexual harassment, hostile work environment, retaliation, and constructive discharge."
Oct 16, 2025
A woman walks into the Community Healthcare Network’s Long Island City Health Center in Queens, N.Y.
A woman walks into the Community Healthcare Network’s Long Island City Health Center in Queens, N.Y., this month. This community health center is one of more than 1,300 across the country that serve patients regardless of their background or ability to pay. | PHOTO BY SHALINA CHATLANI/ STATELINE

The nation’s community health centers face money troubles

Frozen federal funding and the prospect of more uninsured patients could force cuts or closures
Oct 16, 2025
Jess Deis, a nurse practitioner and nurse midwife in Kentucky
Jess Deis, a nurse practitioner and nurse midwife in Kentucky and Indiana, learned she had cervical cancer after she qualified for Medicaid insurance in 2014. | SARAH LADD/KENTUCKY LANTERN

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics.

Cervical cancer has had a known path of prevention since the approval of the first HPV vaccine in 2006. But Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has made false statements about the HPV vaccine’s safety and effectiveness and played a leading role in organizing a mass lawsuit against one of the vaccine’s manufacturers.
Oct 16, 2025
The Martin Luther King Community Hospital in Los Angeles on July 26, 2022.
The Martin Luther King Community Hospital in Los Angeles on July 26, 2022. | PABLO UNZUETA/CALMATTERS

California hospitals are suing over the state’s efforts to curb their spending

In 2022, California lawmakers created an affordability office with the goal of containing skyrocketing health care costs, inspiring other states to do the same. Now hospitals are suing to block those rules, saying they will “starve” them of the resources they need.
Oct 16, 2025
A brightly lit healthcare clinic lobby.
Legacy closed it's West Linn Urgent Care, above, in 2021. Now the nonprofit says it will close six more urgent care sites in Portland and Clark County. | COURTESY LEGACY GOHEALTH

Six Legacy/GoHealth urgent care clinics in Portland and Clark County to close

The struggling Oregon-based health system is limiting or shuttering other programs, too, and it’s not clear how many employees and patients will be affected
Oct 16, 2025
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Providence, Oregon's largest hospital provider, is closing four Portland-area occupational health clinics. They tend to be heavily used by other health care-related businesses for everything from workplace injuries to drug screening. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Providence closing four Portland-area occupational health clinics

The latest cuts by the health care giant are likely to hurt the thousands of businesses that have depended on its services for drug tests and workplace injuries
Oct 14, 2025
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