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Oregon Health & Science University and Legacy Health plan to join as OHSU Health. This new system will expand quality care in Oregon and southwest Washington region by:

• Coordinating care across our hospitals and clinics
• Bringing you preventive, everyday and specialty care in one network
• Increasing your access to health care, clinical trials and innovations
• Reducing operating costs and investing the savings in services and technology
• Expanding education and training for health care professionals

State law says the Oregon Health Authority must approve the OHSU-Legacy plan. OHA’s Health Care Market Oversight program is reviewing the plan to make sure it meets state health care goals:

• Health equity
• Lower costs
• Increased access
• Better care

OHSU and Legacy support a full and transparent review. The review period includes a chance for the public to comment. See how to comment and read public comments so far.

Our commitments to Oregon

We are committing to goals that focus on quality, equity, access and cost. Among other areas, they address:

• Behavioral health care
• Clinical trials
• Access to hospital beds
• Wait times for appointments, surgeries and other care
• Reproductive health care
• Health care spending

Timeline

May 30, 2024: OHSU and Legacy Health sign an agreement to unite as one health system.

• System Combination Agreement, OHSU and Legacy Health
• Governance Matters Agreement, OHSU and Legacy Health
• OHSU News story about agreement

Sept. 26, 2024: OHSU notifies the state of Oregon that it plans to join with Legacy. OHSU does this by filing a document called a “notice of material change transaction application.” The document is sent to the Oregon Health Authority, or OHA.

• Full OHSU Health Care Market Oversight notice (Current as of Sept. 26, 2024)
• Summary of OHSU Health Care Market Oversight notice
• Fact sheet about OHSU Health Care Market Oversight notice
• Exhibits for OHSU Health Care Market Oversight notice (Current as of Sept. 26, 2024) 
• Supplemental materials for OHSU Health Care Market Oversight notice (Current as of Sept. 26, 2024)

Oct. 4, 2024: OHA accepts the notice. OHA begins a 180-day review of the OHSU-Legacy plan. Additional information to original notice submitted Oct. 10

Nov. 6, 2024: OHA asks for more information from OHSU and Legacy. The 180-day review is paused.

Nov. 21, 2024: OHSU provides added information. Response to OHA request.

Dec. 4, 2024: OHA invites people to apply for a community review board. The board will review the OHSU-Legacy plan and recommend whether to approve it.

Jan. 22, 2025: OHA accepts the added information from OHSU and Legacy. The 180-day review resumes.

Feb. 6, 2025: Interim OHSU President Steve Stadum says in an interview that the OHSU-Legacy deal is needed because "[t]he status quo is not working." Read the transcript from OPB's "Think Out Loud."

Feb. 10-March 19, 2025: The community review board holds five public meetings.

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