Bill enacting nation’s strictest limits on corporate health care influence signed by Gov. Kotek

Corporate investors hoping to take over local health care facilities in Oregon could soon face one of the hardest markets nationwide. 

Senate Bill 951, which was quietly signed into law by Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday, sets the strongest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices in the nation, according to industry lawyers. A similar effort failed in the Legislature last year amid pushback from Republicans that prevented the bill from…