Health Care

The Trump administration's "one big, beautiful bill" is in the state Senate.

Daniel Park, 32, was arrested on Tuesday after he was extradited from Poland, where he fled to four days after the attack.

If Republicans in the U.S. Senate pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” Oregonians currently enrolled in Medicaid are more likely than people in nearly any other state to lose coverage and end up uninsured, according to analyses from several national think tanks.

The criminal case of a former Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center nurse accused of diverting patients’ painkillers is moving forward — slowly.

After expanding state Medicaid programs to cover people in the country without legal status, Democrats are considering changes that would reduce immigrant access.

A bill that passed a key committee vote in Congress this week would add a work requirement for some on Medicaid and would jeopardize billions in Medicaid funding for Oregon.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is standing firm on the sweeping cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services, cuts he says were suggested by Elon Musk and his DOGE team.

Groups are joining Legacy Health to ask lawmakers to beef up the training and accreditation program for interpreters to help people access care, other services.

Nearly half of Oregon’s hospitals lost money on day-to-day operations last year, according to a new 2024 financial report from the Hospital Association of Oregon. Among the hospitals that made money providing care last year, many had a “negligible” margin, or profits that amounted to less than 3% of their operating revenue.

Oregon’s psychiatric hospital released a short-term “stabilization plan” to improve safety and medical care after a patient died at the Salem-facility last month. Gov. Tina Kotek asked for the plan after she replaced the head of the Oregon State Hospital in early April.