Hospital

OHSU nurses last went on strike more than 20 years ago. Time for breaks, personal safety, and unease over a proposed merger with Legacy are among the challenges in negotiations.

In the short-term, county residents still need to travel dozens of miles to get maternity care

Oregon Health & Science University's Doernbecher Children's Hospital implements video games as a form of therapy for the children who stay at the hospital. Sam Giles LeBlanc runs the Video Game Therapy Program and advocates the power of video games as a tool for recovery.

Senators and governor tell local hospital, "the community now understands it’s on its own."

PeaceHealth announced Tuesday that it plans to close its University District Hospital in downtown Eugene and shift most services provided there to its RiverBend campus, located nearly six miles away in Springfield.

The senators say they'd like to work with the governor and Saint Alphonsus Health System on a solution to the hospital's immediate staffing crisis.

Providence confirms it’s pulling part of its offer in response to the strike.

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center will not be delivering babies as of midnight on March 17, though the hospital is still waiting for approval to formally stop providing these services.

Facing a shortage of staff and a surge of critically ill patients, OHSU Health, Providence, Legacy Health and Kaiser Permanente have shifted into crisis standards of care.

Providence announced late Friday that its neonatal intensive care unit at the Portland Medical Center may need to take emergency steps to treat critically ill infants.