Health

“We raised some concerns. We asked to be consulted. And then shortly afterwards the board was dissolved. That sequence raises some questions.”

Nearly a year after judge found state in contempt of court for delays in admission to the state psychiatric institution, she granted the wishes of a plaintiffs, who argue “more intrusive measures are now required.” Others, however, say new rules will mean early release for dangerous people.

A Tualatin ophthalmologist grew famous for insider-y skits about the medical profession. He thinks doctors, united through social media, can accomplish far more.

More parents nationwide are getting nonmedical exemptions for required school vaccines for their kindergarteners. But this is especially true in Oregon.

It is impossible to know if CEO Don Antonucci could have done anything to avert the Portland company’s looming demise. But a dozen-plus current and ex-employees feel there is more to the story than Providence management let on.

Oregon’s improvement was better than in most states, but it also started 2025 in a relatively worse place.

Mental Health Awareness Month also draws attention to Oregon’s overall suicide rate, which is 50% higher than the national rate.

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.

RNs make up one of the largest workforces in the state.

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.

It’s a sauna boomtime. Also a boomtime, perhaps, for legally ambiguous cold plunges.

Oregon is poised to OK major deal between nonprofit Providence and for-profit Compassus—under certain conditions.