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By Rhonda Morin Jerry and Louvenia “Lou” Smith were the adventurous types. Retired by their late 50s, they spent two decades sailing the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway. Then about five years ago, [...]

Edited by Rhonda Morin This is the first in a series of articles about Oregon’s mental health courts. Today: Washington County’s Mental Health Court offers compassionate approach Special [...]

By Oregon Health News staff SALEM—Democrats passed a bill out of committee in late May that will increase by fivefold the tax on the state’s largest hospitals and start a new tax on [...]

House committee passes pared down health care reform bill Oregon’s House Health Care Committee passed a health care reform package that puts the shell of a health authority in place, but leaves [...]

Edited by Rhonda Morin The downturn in the United States economy has had an effect on hospitals’ bottom lines. Drops in investment income and variable rate bonds have made some hospitals in the [...]

Edited by Rhonda Morin In Oregon and throughout the United States, physicians and the law community have tried to find a balance between what is fair and what is economically sustainable when it [...]

In an attempt to spread the burden of funding Oregon’s public-administered health program to a greater number of entities, the Oregon Medical Insurance Pool (OMIP) board has submitted two [...]

Oregon’s high-risk insurer to change The race to restructure Oregon’s health care system has begun. The state’s high-risk insurance and the health partnership offices are the first [...]

Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon has filed a petition with the Multnomah County Circuit Court to stop the Public Employees’ Benefit Board from switching insurance carriers for its tens of [...]

Despite dwindling memberships and revenues in 2009, most of Oregon’s major insurance companies haven’t had to give their employees pink slips – yet. To avoid layoffs, some have [...]