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Oregon Prescription Drug Affordability Board

Oregon's Prescription Drug Affordability Board, shown here at their Sept. 17, 2025, meeting. | SCREENSHOT

State’s drug price affordability board has a new top staffer

Sarah Young will help a state advisory board try to hold the line against drug prices that are helping drive up the cost of health care

Oct 14, 2025
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Staff strike outside of Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas, Oct. 14, 2025 | ELI IMADALI / OPB

Northwest Kaiser nurses seek double-digit wage increase over 4-year contract

The nurses union says their pay is well below their competitors in the region. Kaiser disputes the claim.

Oct 14, 2025

An artist's rendering of a proposed behavioral health hospital planned by PeaceHealth and LifePoint for Springfield. | COURTESY PEACEHEALTH

Suit challenges new Oregon behavioral health siting law

Neighboring landowners hope to block PeaceHealth’s behavioral health hospital and a Lane County mental health crisis center

Oct 14, 2025
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Digital navigators like Megan Waiters in Alabama are no longer paid to help residents access the internet.

Megan Waiters is a digital navigator for an Alabama nonprofit supported by the Digital Equity Act of 2021, a program designed to help rural and underserved communities gain internet access. This spring, funding for the $2.75 billion program disappeared. | SARAH JANE TRIBBLE|KFF HEALTH NEWS

Trump called Digital Equity Act ‘racist.’ Now internet money for rural Americans is gone.

Nearly 3 million people in America live in areas with shortages of medical professionals and where modern telehealth services are often inaccessible because of poor internet connections

Oct 14, 2025

Some Medicare patients are unable to access telehealth services since the federal government shut down on Oct. 1. | MIKE THOMPSON | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Shutdown forces Medicare patients off popular telehealth and hospital-at-home programs

Both programs are for Medicare recipients, but some physicians have stopped booking telemedicine visits for any patients

Oct 14, 2025

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Oregon abandons Medicaid expansion for people leaving prison, months after delaying launch

State officials cited onerous work to implement federal Medicaid eligibility changes and other shifting policies

Oct 11, 2025

David Farley, left, attends his arraignment from jail while his attorneys present in-person at the Clackamas County Courthouse on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025 in Oregon City, Ore. | SASKIA HATVANY/OPB

West Linn doctor accused of sexually abusing patients pleads not guilty to 11 charges

David Farley appeared in court Friday, five years after his patients first reported his abuse to police

Oct 11, 2025

Melissa Keele brought her son to a psychiatric hospital and he was discharged 102 minutes later. He has spiraled since then, cycling in and out of hospitals and jails. | RACHEL WOOLF FOR PROPUBLICA

Psychiatric hospitals turn away patients who need urgent care. The facilities face few consequences.

Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

Oct 9, 2025

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This geriatrics training program escaped the ax. For now.

The Trump administration has restored promised funds to a program that teaches people in health care how to work with aging Americans

Oct 9, 2025

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OHSU telehealth program set to expand testing, treatments to rural Oregon

A three-year, $7.5 million federal grant will expand on a trial project using peers that showed significant gains in getting drug users connected to doctors to test for and treat hepatitis C, HIV and other conditions

Oct 9, 2025
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