It was a year in which the health care community had hoped to recuperate. Instead, Oregon and southwest Washington saw major changes affecting workers, patients, insurers, state officials and health systems.
Influential health leader says the Oregon nonprofit's absorption by a California Medicare insurer would undermine care for low-income people. Leadership of the two entities say the critics are off-base.
Oregon advisory committee will consider a draft recommendation saying the nonprofit’s absorption into a California entity could harm low-income Oregonians and shouldn’t be approved
State officials failed to persuade the federal government to embrace changes to an agreement around a climate-related devices such as air conditioners, and now are planning a scaled-down program for March
The Oregon Health Plan provider, which would send $120 million to a merged California nonprofit under the deal, wants the state to wrap up a process nearing the 12-month mark — even as opposition mounts
Nov 28, 2023
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Clockwise, from left to right: Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran, moderator and Portland Axios reporter Emily Harris, Providence Health Chief Executive of Behavioral Health Robin Henderson, Portland Street Response Interim Program Manager Lielah Leighton, Jonathan Mroz of Central City Concern, Multnomah Circuit Judge Nan Waller discussed promising approaches to improve behavioral health care in Portland.
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SCREENSHOT, OREGON HEALTH FORUM
An Oregon Health Forum panel agreed that action and urgency could significantly improve care for people experiencing mental health crisis and addiction in Oregon's largest city
Nov 16, 2023
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Oregon legislators discuss upcoming changes to Measure 110 at the Oregon State of Reform conference in Portland on Nov. 14, 2023. From left to right: Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland; Rep. Ed Diehl, R-Stayton; and Rep. Thuy Tran, D-Portland.
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Public drug use and prosecution of drug dealers could be on the table, as well as reinstating criminal penalties and scrapping a controversial oversight council
Details on potential effects of the pending deal remain hazy as a California nonprofit Medicare insurer moves toward absorption of a major provider of health care to low-income Oregonians
Nov 14, 2023
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Dr. Sejal Hathi, 33, in January takes over as director of the Oregon Health Authority, an agency that oversees care to more than 1.3 million low-income people.
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SCREENSHOT VIA THE LUND REPORT