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Portland-Based Providence Health Plan to Stop Offering Most Insurance Plans at End of Year
The Providence Health Plan said Wednesday that it would stop offering most of its insurance products by the year’s end, heralding the near-complete dissolution of a longtime stalwart of Oregon’s private health insurance marketplace.
Oregon Again Tops U.S. Rankings for Nurse Pay
RNs make up one of the largest workforces in the state.
This Scholar Takes Oregon’s Universal Health Care Dreams Seriously. Should We?
Chunhuei Chi is working on a plan that in much of the developed world sounds essentially banal, but to many Americans sounds so audacious as to be absurd.
Measure to Increase Oregon Gas Tax Appears Headed for Resounding Defeat
Meanwhile, Multnomah County voters were on track to renew the Oregon Historical Society levy.
The Sauna Business Surges in Oregon
It’s a sauna boomtime. Also a boomtime, perhaps, for legally ambiguous cold plunges.
Oregon’s Largest Home Health Care Network Could Soon Be Under New, Private Equity-Backed Management
Oregon is poised to OK major deal between nonprofit Providence and for-profit Compassus—under certain conditions.
Portland Woman Sentenced for Elephants Deli Fire
Investigators said Catherine Stough, 57, had told them she accidentally started the March 10 early morning fire as she was looking for food scraps in a trash bin.
Battle Over a Montavilla Sauna Shows the Limits of Multnomah County’s Wood-Burning Ordinance
A review of business records suggests saunas are ascendant in Oregon. Is the government ready?
Oregon Court Paves Way for Washington County Ban on Flavored Tobacco
Meanwhile, Multnomah County awaits a ruling of its own on it’s own delayed efforts to prohibit the sale of flavored synthetic nicotine and tobacco products.
With One Week Until Oregon Election, Officials Advise Using Ballot Drop Box Rather Than Mail
The announcement attributes this concerns to “recent service cuts to USPS.” But there is a bigger picture here.