Sterling Hanakahi, 73, and Anita Hanakahi, 70, of Tillamook say they were blindsided when Texas-based U.S. Renal Care executives announced they would close their kidney dialysis center in the coastal community Feb. 23.

2024年11月19日 · Four months into a legislatively mandated process of contracting with a tech company to build a new health insurance shopping website for Oregonians, state officials have canceled the effort and will start it all over again for reasons that remain unclear.. Deloitte LLP, a consulting firm with close ties to the Oregon Health Authority, was ranked by state officials as the top bidder after the ...

2014年2月14日 · A mural welcomes visitors to Havana, Florida. Town leaders seeking a doctor to practice locally placed want ads in local newspapers, posted notices on social media, and sweetened the pot with a rent-free medical office building equipped with an X-ray, an ultrasound machine, and a bone density scanner — all owned by the town.

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At 8am on Tuesday in an undisclosed location in Salem, top leaders of the Oregon Nurses Association and Providence Health in Oregon met in person for the first time in months. There, they heard a sense of urgency from none other than …

18 小时之前 · A federal judge in Seattle on Friday temporarily paused President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to stop federal funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for young people.. The temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King is the second on this issue in as many days.

2025年2月7日 · Abortion foes worried before his election that President Donald Trump had moved on, now that Roe v.Wade is overturned and abortion policy, as he said on the campaign trail, “has been returned to the states.”. Their concerns mounted after Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime supporter of abortion rights, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — and then as he signed ...

The state hospital eventually began complying with the seven-day admission requirement for a total of seven months, Cooper said. But admission wait times again rose. Meanwhile, critics have said the discharge deadlines are creating a revolving door in the criminal justice system, straining the system and hurting public safety and patients rather than helping.

2024年8月13日 · Realizing there was still a need to expose the health care industry, I launched The Lund Report as an independent news source in 2008. Supporters rallied around me, including state health official Rocky King, advocate Ellen Pinney, FamilyCare Health CEO Jeff Heatherington, Susan Prows and Northwest Health Foundation leader Thomas Aschenbrener.

The Lund Report is an independent, nonpartisan news service that exists to produce high-quality journalism about health care in Oregon and southwest Washington.Our public-service journalism promotes the awareness and understanding required for positive progress, while holding industry and government accountable. We bring to light the …