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ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM
Oregon is Cancer patient records exposed in breach
65,000
shots shy
of lifting
mandates
By sUZAnne ROIG
The Bulletin
The health records of nearly
5,000 St. Charles Health Sys-
tem cancer patients may have
been exposed during a data
breach that affected 42 health
systems in the United States.
Every patient or patient’s
family has been notified of
the April 26 data breach, said
Bruce Anders, St. Charles
Health System vice president
of legal affairs, in an email to
The Bulletin. A forensic inves-
tigation shows that none of the
patients’ information has been
disclosed publicly or used
fraudulently, according to a le-
gal notice in The Bulletin.
In addition, no credit card
or debit card information
was involved in the security
breach, according to the legal
notice.
As soon as the Swedish
software firm, Elekta, which
provides cancer registry soft-
ware and data management,
was alerted to the data breach,
it contacted the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, Raven
Canzeri, Elekta medial rela-
tions global director, said in an
email.
Affected patients were no-
tified by mail on Monday that
the breach entailed names, ad-
dresses, Social Security num-
bers, dates of birth, weight and
height and medical diagno-
sis, according to a public legal
notice. “We have shared infor-
mation about the event with
St. Charles,” Canzeri said in an
email. “We have migrated our
cloud-based applications to
Elekta’s Axis Cloud, which was
not impacted by the incident
and operates on the Microsoft
Azure environment, which
employs the latest and most
stringent cloud and security
technologies available.”
See Breach / A13
By GARy A. WARneR
Oregon Capital Bureau
Oregon needs just over
65,000 more people to get their
first COVID-19 vaccination
shot for the state to lift most re-
strictions statewide.
“We are incredibly close
to achieving a 70% statewide
adult vaccination rate, bringing
us closer to returning to a sense
of normalcy,” Gov. Kate Brown
said in a statement Tuesday.
The Oregon Health Author-
ity said 65,484 more shots were
needed as of midday to pass
70% of eligible adult residents
having received one shot.
OHA reported it was averag-
ing 13,484 shots per day, which
includes each shot of the two-
shot Moderna and Pfizer vac-
cines, as well as the one-shot
Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
From
storms to sunshine
See COVId-19 / A4
Bend police
concerned
after two
crashes with
pedestrians
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Recent rain showers nurture a field of flowers near Miller’s Landing Park in Bend on Tuesday.
By KyLe sPURR
The Bulletin
Two pedestrian crashes
within one week in Bend have
left one man dead and another
with life-threatening injuries.
Bend Police Department
identified the victims Tues-
day in both crashes, which oc-
curred Monday and June 7.
Derek Reed, 23, of Bend,
was killed June 7 when he was
struck by two vehicles in the
northbound lane of NE Third
Street at Mervin Samples Road.
Mason Briley, an 18-year-old
Bend resident, is being treated
at St. Charles Bend with seri-
ous injuries after being struck
by a pickup truck on the Bend
Parkway at Pinebrook Boule-
vard late Monday.
The two drivers who struck
Reed were not cited. Police
are still determining charges
for the driver of the truck that
struck Briley, but said alcohol
and drug impairment are not
factors.
A
week of rain storms and light-
ning strikes across Central Ore-
gon wound down Tuesday as the
weather turns more summerlike.
Clear skies and 80-degree temperatures
are expected to stick around for the re-
mainder of the week, according to the Na-
tional Weather Service office in Pendleton.
But before the weather shifted Tuesday,
five lightning strikes were recorded in De-
schutes County and seven in Crook County.
None was recorded in Jefferson County,
although all three counties had five light-
ning strikes on Monday, according to the
weather service.
See storms / A13
Crook County must reconsider solar project expansion
By MATeUsZ PeRKOWsKI
Capital Press
A solar project expansion
approved in Oregon’s Crook
County falls short of wildlife
habitat mitigation require-
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ments and must be reconsid-
ered, according a state land
use board.
The Land Use Board of Ap-
peals has ordered the county
to reconsider its authoriza-
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tion of the West Prineville
Solar Farm’s expansion from
320 acres to 654 acres on land
zoned for exclusive farm use.
The Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife is correct
that the project’s mitigation
plan doesn’t meet several key
requirements intended to pre-
vent the “net loss of habitat
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quality and quantity.”
The agency argued the so-
lar project does not adequately
map out sites meant to miti-
gate for habitat loss, ensure the
durability of mitigation mea-
sures or identify performance
and success criteria.
The solar developer, which
intervened in the case, coun-
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tered that the county has wide
discretion in determining
which specific components
of ODFW’s mitigation policy
need to be included in a plan.
LUBA has now disagreed,
ruling that such plans must be
consistent with all the agency’s
requirements.
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Land Use Board of Appeals: Mitigation plan
for wildlife-habitat loss failed requirements
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TODAY’S
WEATHER
By KyLe sPURR
The Bulletin
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