Providence Health & Services and its unionized workers in Oregon appear to remain deadlocked a week into the largest health care strike in Oregon history. Nearly 5,000 Providence nurses and about 150 doctors and advanced practitioners walked off the job early last Friday.
Q: Aetna will no longer cover Providence Medical Group providers, because they are considered “out-of-network.” What Primary Care Providers (PCP) in Southern Oregon are accepting new patients with Aetna’s Medicare Advantage Plans? – Bylle, Jacksonville
Providence Health & Services said its negotiators are ready to reopen talks with the Oregon Nurses Association to end a strike by 5,000 doctors, nurses and other medical personnel that began Jan. 10.
Providence Health & Services and its unionized workers in Oregon appear to remain deadlocked, more than a week into the largest health care strike in Oregon history. Nearly 5,000 Providence nurses ...
Almost 5,000 Oregon healthcare workers are striking against nonprofit health system Providence after more than a year of failed contract negotiations. | Though largely comprised of nurses, the walk-off that began Friday also includes physician associates and doctors—the latter of which is a first for Oregon,
After five days of strikes at Providence’s eight hospitals in Oregon and six of its women’s clinics, the health care company and union members representing nurses and others have agreed to return to negotiations.
Labcorp also purchased Legacy Health’s laboratory and announced in September that it planned to downsize that lab and shift its operations to the Providence location. 400 technicians working for Labcorp at Legacy hospitals have successfully unionized.
The largest health care worker strike in Oregon history is continuing this week, with thousands of Providence nurses and a number of doctors taking to picket lines across the state. Health care workers began their strike on Friday,
On the fifth day of a historic health care workers strike impacting Providence facilities in Oregon, the hospital system signaled that it is now prepared to resume negotiations at all eight of its hospitals.
The ONA has not warned its members of the dangers posed by the threats of the Trump administration to undertake ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” which historically have included hospitals.
There is enormous potential to expand the strike into a broader movement in defense healthcare and the working class against the attacks by major corporations and by the science deniers in the Trump administration.
Hannah Jarand gave birth to a baby boy at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, her fourth child born at the Portland hospital. Jarand’s previous pregnancies had complications, so this one — her “last hurrah,