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Oregon insurance website project was halted over bidder-consultant connection, records show
The picture painted by emails and other documents obtained under Oregon Public Records Law sheds light on the Oregon Health ...
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Nurse staffing law’s launch in Oregon sparks complaints, 'mixed bag' effects
In addition to lingering stresses from the pandemic, nurses continue to face challenges caring for Oregon’s houseless ...
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Oregon task force ends work without unity on recommendations about raising alcohol taxes
The task force was mandated by House Bill 3610, passed by the 2023 Legislature to focus on alcohol abuse, prevention and ...
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Why Oregonians should care, but not panic, about bird flu
Experts, including those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stress that the current risk to the general ...
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DOJ suit claims CVS ignored red flags, dispensed opioids from ‘dangerously understaffed’ pharmacies
The civil complaint filed on Friday and unsealed Wednesday names CVS and its numerous subsidiaries in all 50 states as ...
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Nurse staffing law’s benefits unclear in Oregon as complaints mount
Matt Calzia, a registered nurse who is part of the bargaining unit at PeaceHealth RiverBend in Springfield, told The Lund ...
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Analysis: Rage has long shadowed American health care. It’s rarely produced big change.
Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia (“Black Hawk ...
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Nurse staffing law’s start in Oregon: flood of complaints, ‘mixed bag’ effects
This article has been updated. Six months after a new law set staffing minimums at Oregon hospitals, the state’s largest nurses union and its hospitals can’t agree on what it means, even as regulators ...