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Patient safety in Oregon--How I got the story
My experience reporting on health care in Oregon has been mostly positive, particularly with... more »
posted 03/15/12
Errors in rural hospitals
I've been a health reporter for a number of years and, in the past few have focused increasingly... more »
posted 07/22/11

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Project: Oregon behind on data transparency

Oregon, typically a progressive state, releases much less data about the quality and safety of its hospitals in at least one important database.

Project: Measuring patient safety

Five prominent Oregon hospitals do worse than the national average on a key measure of patient safety.

Project: Oregon releases less health data

While many states make information related to medical care complications public, Oregon does not. That means that the best information about an individual hospital’s quality and safety may be kept from the public.