Oregon state agencies failed to act as COVID hit long-term care facilities: Report

Oregon public agencies were not equipped to respond to a pandemic that overwhelmed the state’s understaffed long-term care facilities, state officials report.

The report, released on Wednesday, concerned the 685 long-term care facilities around the state and was conducted by the Oregon secretary of state’s audit division. It is not considered an audit under government auditing standards, its authors noted, despite going through the same quality assurance process.