Nick Budnick

FILE: A woman looks at air conditioners for sale in a P.C. Richard & Son store, in New York, Sunday, July 1, 2012.

Oregon’s climate benefit for low-income residents is shrinking

Nick Budnick

The benefit would have allowed eligible Oregon Health Plan members to obtain air conditioners, heaters and other devices to help them withstand extreme weather.

FILE: The Oregon Health Authority offices in Salem, Ore. The state has sent renewal notices to households comprising 450,047 people, or about 30% of the total enrolled. The Oregon Health Authority uses an outside payroll vendor to verify eligibility for the Medicaid-funded program when possible.

Health and Medicine

First round of disenrollments looms as Oregon pores through its Medicaid rolls

Nick Budnick

State officials say about 80% of the 1.5 million Oregon Health Plan members will keep coverage

OHSU launched an in-house COVID-19 testing lab in March 2020, and has since expanded it.

Health and Medicine

New COVID wave coming to Oregon, forecaster says

Nick Budnick

The new variant, ‘Arcturus,’ is expected to drive a new surge in cases, and it may come with additional cases of pink eye

Emergency transport vehicles stack up outside the emergency department, waiting for patients to be admitted.

Health and Medicine

Oregon’s hospital merger law may further protect abortion access in the state

Nick Budnick

Oregon's strict law regulating health care mergers may keep religiously affiliated health systems that do not provide abortion care from expanding.