“This situation highlights a pattern of instability and lack of communication that has worried both providers and patients in our community, and is exactly why we are trying to separate accountants and attorneys and administrators from the responsibility for patient care,” Rep. Nancy Nathanson (D-North Eugene) said in a statement. “We need clear answers about what happened, how many patients may have been affected, and what safeguards will be put in place moving forward.” — OPB article, April 15, 2026

Newly built data centers could be temporarily exempt from Gov. Tina Kotek’s hotly-debated economic stimulus bill that would double the length of property tax exemptions for industries investing in Oregon infrastructure and jobs in urban and suburban “enterprise zones.”

Under an amendment to Kotek-backed House Bill 4084 proposed on Monday by Rep. Nancy Nathanson, D-Eugene, new data centers would not qualify for at least a year for the expanded benefits that change the current five-year property tax exemption to 10 years under the state’s decades-old enterprise zone program. Under the program, businesses are incentivized to set up shop and boost local hiring in select zones across the state, in exchange for a complete property-tax exemption for a set number of years.

—Reported in Portland Tribune Mar. 3, 2026

“As you may know, the Oregon Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 951 to reinforce long-standing protections around the corporate practice of medicine,” says the letter, written by House Majority Leader Ben Bowman, D-Tigard, and state Reps. Lisa Fragala and Nancy Nathanson, both Democrats from Eugene. “We passed this law because Oregonians expect medical decisions to be made in the interest of patients and by clinicians exercising independent professional judgment, not by corporate ownership, which can allow non-clinical control over clinical practice and risk patient health.”

‍ ‍Reported in Lookout Eugene Springfield, Feb. 25, 2026

After asking several organizations for specific information on the loss of doctors at Oregon Medical Group (OMG) I still don’t have good data. What I do know is that when our local medical community is expressing alarm, and the number of patients without doctors now could be in the thousands, we have a growing crisis in access to basic health care. The Oregonian covered the story on March 27.

House Bill 4136, sponsored by Rep. Nancy Nathanson, D-Eugene, and backed by five other lawmakers with ties to the area, includes money to fund an extra Eugene-Springfield ambulance crew, a new path for out-of-state nurses to get temporary licenses and an "innovation fund" to help Lane County pay for pilot programs meant to reduce the area's reliance on hospitals and emergency medical services. Register-Guard Feb. 16, 2024 Listen to OPB Think Out Loud March 5, 2024: How the closure of Eugene’s only hospital is impacting emergency services.