Providence Health Plan leaders were already outsourcing some core functions. The vast majority of the plan’s members are in Oregon.

The Marion County District Attorney says she has grown increasingly concerned in recent years that the state’s flagship psychiatric hospital “cannot meet the challenge of the moment.”

The trusty, locking butane torch is a potent, focussed heat source—reliable even in the wind. Some increasingly see it as a public health scourge.

The plan, while largely conceptual, offers some insight into the thinking inside the state agency responsible for Oregonians’ health outcomes.

A Southeast Portland Trader Joe’s will likely remain closed for weeks, according to a state official, as a contractor removes and decontaminates floor material found to contain asbestos.

Hospitals in the state more than doubled their net assets between 2013 and 2023.

On Jan. 1, some 125,000 Oregonians entered a new health insurance epoch. Or so they were told.

“If I were a leader at the state level, at the local level, I would be really interested in trying to understand why Portland is such an outlier.”

Budget cuts previously on the table, Oregon Health & Science University had warned, would have caused it to eliminate several graduate medical education slots in the incoming class. That outcome has been averted.

State health officials says asbestos was found in old flooring glue during renovation project. They say risk to public is low.