TODAY: Nurses To Picket Good Samaritan Hospital In Corvallis July 8 (Photo) -07/08/25
MEDIA ADVISORY: July 8, 2025
Local nurses are fighting for fair contracts at two Samaritan hospitals while working to protect local birth centers and emergency surgical services
WHAT: Informational picket and rally for a fair contract at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis.
WHERE: Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center (3600 NW Samaritan Dr., Corvallis, OR 97330)
WHEN: Tuesday, July 8 from 1 – 3 p.m. Speeches start at approximately 2:15 p.m.
Nurses will be available for interviews before and after speeches.
WHO: Local frontline nurses and healthcare providers, patients and families.
WHY: Nurses at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center are holding an informational picket and rally Tuesday, July 8. More than 700 local nurses are currently fighting for fair contracts at both Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center–Samaritan’s flagship hospital in Corvallis–and Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital in Lebanon. Nurses at both hospitals have been bargaining since March in an attempt to reach a fair contract agreement with Samaritan Health System executives. Nurses’ contracts at Good Samaritan and Samaritan Lebanon expired June 30, 2025.
Nurses at both facilities are committed to reaching a fair contract agreement that includes safe staffing and safe workplaces, fair wages, affordable healthcare, and a stronger voice for providers to improve local healthcare and prevent job cuts and department closures.
ONA nurses in the Samaritan system have led public opposition to Samaritan’s reported proposals to cut birthing centers at hospitals in Lebanon and Lincoln City and eliminate local emergency surgery teams among other cuts.
The community has joined nurses and rallied to defend the birth center and emergency surgery team with patients and elected leaders including U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04), among those publicly calling on Samaritan Health Services to maintain rural and coastal Oregonians’ full access to labor and delivery services.
- Community members can email Samaritan decisionmakers here to ask them to save local birth centers and preserve access to essential care.
Community members are encouraged to attend nurses’ informational picket on July 8 to hear directly from local nurses, ask questions, and share concerns and stories about their community’s healthcare.
Media members are encouraged to attend to capture the voices and stories of frontline nurses, healthcare workers and patients.
NOTE: An informational picket is not a strike or work stoppage. It is a demonstration of solidarity and an opportunity to educate the public about their community’s healthcare.