This article underscores the huge mistakes made by state and local officials in the last three decades.  We have sunk a generation worth of highways funds on upgrading the I-5/Belt Line interchange almost solely in reaction to the relocation of Sacred Hospital to Springfield.  
The 900-pound gorilla that is PeaceHealth sucked up money which should have gone - by now - to solving the worst traffic situation in Lane County:  the Delta Highway/Belt Line RD/Belt Line bridges.
Meanwhile the gorilla built a grossly expensive hospital neither it or local citizens can afford to fully operate - while planting itself in McKenzie-Willamette Hospital's operating area and  thereby damaging competition in healthcare.  It continues it's march toward regional monopoly-provider status through horizontal and vertical integration.  
That it got its way in all of this through the duplicity of local leaders and Randy Pape, its man on the ODOT board, is the negative local story of the last 30 years.