Oregon’s state government and its main association of counties have settled on a plan that would empower the Oregon Health Authority to more closely monitor and shape mental health and addiction services at the local level.

Workgroup finds flaws in new system that aims to better coordinate residential behavioral health care in Oregon. OHSU says it was given no opportunity to respond or answer questions for the report.

“I defer strongly to the leaders and the clinicians in particular within the transgender health program on what we should do,” OHSU’s president says.

Members of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 328—an eclectic mix of staff whose work spans patient care, administration, and food service—must still approve the contract.

“Let’s be real. If all we are doing is restoring somebody—which, to be blunt, is forced medication and flash cards on basic court procedures like ‘Who is a judge?’ ‘What does your lawyer do?’—it is not treatment.”

Nominally, the case was about federal food benefits. But it hinged on a confusing passage in a Trump administration document.

The document raises questions not just about federal agents’ conduct, but about inconsistencies in a major Portland health system’s policies and practices regarding federal immigration officials on its grounds.

Vaccination rates have been declining—a “dangerous trend,” an official says.

Numerous therapy businesses around Oregon have been affected, once again, by an abrupt state policy shift.

Tens of thousands of Aetna members in Oregon will have easier, cheaper access to Providence Oregon hospitals and clinics after the large insurer and heath system reached a deal.