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The Lund Report is an independent, nonpartisan news service that exists to produce high-quality journalism about health care in Oregon and southwest Washington.
How UnitedHealth’s playbook for limiting mental health coverage …
Nov 19, 2024 · Series: America’s Mental Barrier:How Insurers Interfere With Mental Health Care. More in this series. Reporting Highlights. An Insurer Sanctioned: Three states found United’s algorithmic system to limit mental health coverage illegal; when they fought it, …
Whooping cough, a threat to babies, surges in Oregon
Cases of whooping cough, which starts out like a common cold but can quicky turn serious, keep surging in Oregon — causing health officials to issue a new call to get vaccinated.
Kitzhaber sounds alarm over proposed takeover of Legacy Health …
This article has been updated with additional comment from Oregon Health & Science University. One of the most influential voices in Oregon health care, former Gov. John Kitzhaber, has gone public with concerns that the proposed takeover of Legacy Health hospitals and clinics by Oregon Health & Science University “raises more questions than answers.”
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Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center in June 2023 as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike.JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT
2 Oregon ballot measures tied to fluoride in drinking water fail
Nov 7, 2024 · Two ballot measures in Oregon that would put fluoride in city drinking water appear to be losing, according to results updated Wednesday from the Oregon Secretary of State.. The failures of the ballot measures — in Hillsboro and Lebanon — are yet another sign of Oregonians’ longstanding opposition to fluoride at the ballot box.
Oregon, PCC May Intervene to Help Nursing Students Marooned …
Sep 23, 2016 · Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission is working to rescue almost 300 nursing students caught in limbo when ITT Technical Institutes shut its doors earlier this month, with Portland Community College possibly stepping in to take over the curriculum, allowing the students to to finish their educations and address the growing demand for nurses.
Oregon lawmakers share plans for 2025 session | The Lund Report
Oct 2, 2024 · I watched with interest the CCO of Oregon meeting on Wednesday. Being a dentist with long interest and history with all things Medicaid dental, I have to say as long as we have a system that treats the results of the dental infection rather than the infection, more money will be needed as both Dr. Javadi and Pham stated.
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Nick Budnick is our editor-in-chief and a reporter. He’s spent nearly 30 years covering topics that include state government and Oregon’s health care system. He covered the state Legislature for the Bend Bulletin as lawmakers crafted Oregon’s signature Medicaid reforms.
At some Oregon hospitals, inpatient psychiatric units face …
Feb 13, 2024 · This article has been updated to incorporate comment from Oregon Health Authority. For 54 years, Lane County’s dominant hospital system, PeaceHealth, has run a secure 35-bed behavioral health facility in downtown Eugene where people in severe crisis from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or other mental illnesses can stay for days or weeks to stabilize.