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.

Providence St. Vincent delivers more babies than any other hospital in Oregon, but its striking obstetricians say work conditions have deteriorated.

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.

A former hospital patient has filed a lawsuit seeking up to $4 million after she was infected with hepatitis C during surgery in Portland, the lawsuit claims.

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.

A long-anticipated health care workers strike began early Friday morning across 14 Providence facilities after Providence Health and the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) failed to reach an agreement in contract negotiations.

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,

Thousands of Providence health care workers are striking this morning in the largest health care strike in Oregon history. Here's why.

The fight for these demands immediately poses the need for a broader industrial and political struggle against the Democrats, Republicans and trade union apparatus.

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.

At the entrance to Providence Seaside Hospital Friday morning, dozens of nurses, many clad in green rain ponchos bearing the Oregon Nurses Association logo, gathered in the drizzle wielding picket signs.

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.