Eugene’s White Bird Clinic is suing a rival nonprofit, Willamette Valley Crisis Care, over copyright infringement and the stealing of trade secrets.

The Oregon Legislature’s Emergency Board has committed $7.5 million to Planned Parenthood. The funding is in response to the Trump administration’s reconciliation bill, HR-1, which blocks patients with Medicaid from using their coverage for care at the reproductive health centers.

The Corvallis Clinic, St. Charles Health System in Bend, PacificSource’s commercial insurance plan, and United Healthcare’s and Moda’s Medicare Advantage Plans were found to have unreasonably cost increases.

A recent Oregon State University study found that the primary cyanotoxin in Detroit Lake suddenly changed in 2018, and the bacteria strain that’s currently dominant lives longer, so harmful blooms may contaminate Detroit Lake for more days, each year.

This program explores rising costs, insurance design constraints, and substantial gaps in behavioral health access.

McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center has hired a new group of physicians to provide 24/7 maternity care at its birth center in Springfield. This comes after the hospital lost all its contracted OB-GYNs following a shakeup at Oregon Medical Group.

A recent report from the city notes an increase in crisis service response by fire and police, and peer navigation is intended to help lower such calls.

Oregon Rainmakers' conversation with Orchid Health Founder and CEO Orion Falvey, about his company’s efforts to bring healthcare clinics to rural parts of Oregon, and the industry’s current challenges.

PeaceHealth announced another round of employee layoffs this week.

Springfield-based PacificSource has begun layoffs of about 300 people, or roughly one-sixth of its workforce, a spokesperson confirmed last Friday. The layoffs follow a round of 56 layoffs reported last month.