A ‘perfect storm’ of staff shortages, financial struggles and inability to discharge patients have created what hospital officials call an ‘existential crisis.’
PORTLAND, Ore. — As CEO of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Care Systems, Becky Hultberg has a close-up view of the crisis gripping the state’s health care sector — and she spends sleepless nights thinking about what the future holds.
More than two and a half years since the start of the pandemic, hospitals and skilled nursing homes continue to face historic staff shortages, and it’s left Oregon’s hospitals and health care systems in deep financial turmoil.
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