Doctors and nurses at Providence facilities in Portland have authorized a strike amid ongoing contract negotiations.
The walkout would include physicians, physician associates, nurse midwives and clinic nurses at Providence St. Vincent and six Providence Women’s Clinics in the Portland metro area. Physicians are represented by the Pacific Northwest Hospital Medicine Association, and nurses by the Oregon Nurses Association. According to the nurses union, about 150 staff would be impacted in the walkout, and it would be the “first doctor’s strike in Oregon history.”