Willamette Week

A Year After Death Drew Scrutiny, Feds Let Oregon State Hospital Keep Accreditation

A patient’s death in March 2025 put federal funds for Oregon State Hospital in jeopardy. But in recent days this peril ...
KTVZ

Oregon State Hospital makes ‘significant’ improvements, is now in compliance with patient care and safety standards

The Oregon State Hospital has made notable changes in regards to patient care and safety after a sentinel event in March of ...
The Bulletin

First-in-the-nation Oregon law capping state employee hospital payments is working, study says

A landmark 2017 Oregon law that limited how much hospitals can bill state employees’ health care plans has saved the state around $50 million annually without harming providers’ ability to operate, ...
The Spokesman-Review

Oregon’s first-in-nation hospital price cap hasn’t hurt care, finances so far, study finds

A new analysis of Oregon’s first-in-the-nation hospital payment cap finds that the policy has so far produced little turbulence in hospital finances or the quality of patient care. The study, ...

Oregon hospitals fall short of national safety goals to prevent some infections, state data shows

Oregon hospitals recorded nearly 1,000 infections that patients picked up while receiving care in 2024, resulting in ...