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Oregon Nurses AssociationNurses in Roseburg have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract after planning to picket. -
Anne Wernikoff/CalMattersProvidence St. Joseph Hospital agreed to provide emergency abortions after the state sued it, alleging it denied care to a woman who miscarried.
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Oregon hospitals are full of patients, running low on nurses and bleeding money. -
Most hospitals in Oregon are currently at over 90% capacity, despite the fact that COVID-19 hospitalizations are nowhere near their highest peaks. -
While COVID-19 hospitalizations in Oregon are less than half what they were at their peak last fall, hospitals in the state are struggling to operate normally. -
Oregon's strict law regulating health care mergers may keep religiously affiliated health systems that do not provide abortion care from expanding. -
No longer convinced their employer is committed to service, roughly a third of nurses employed by Providence stand ready to strike if their pay and policy demands aren鈥檛 met. -
House Bill 4003 will allow the state license nursing students to practice in hospitals under the supervision and open up new mental health and wellness resources to nurses experiencing burnout. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom鈥檚 administration has negotiated a secret deal to give Kaiser Permanente a special Medicaid contract that would allow the health care behemoth to expand its reach in California. -
More than 700 days have passed since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Oregon. Deep into the second year of the pandemic, the staff at Salem's only hospital are fighting to keep serving all the patients that come through their doors, without breaking under the pressure. -
Oregon's hospitals are so short on beds, many have been forced to cancel elective surgeries. One underreported problem: about 10 percent of hospital beds are occupied by patients who are ready to leave but have nowhere to go. -
OHSU cut its original hospitalization forecast by more than half, based on reports that, while the omicron virus is leading to more COVID-19 infections, people are not getting as severely ill.
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California will require health care workers to receive a COVID-19 booster shot and attempt to expand the state's testing capacity, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday, as the omicron COVID-19 variant continues to spread across the country. -
The answer is no in many parts of California. Eighteen counties, mostly rural ones, have more hospitalized COVID-19 patients today than a year ago.
