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CONFRONTATION ENDS WITH MAN IN CUSTODY Oregonian – September 21, 2001 An officer-safety alert was distributed to Portland officers last week about threats that Tyrone Wayne Waters, 35, of the 4500 block of North Williams Avenue had made against the police. On his answering machine message, Waters spoke angrily of his Sept. 1 arrest at […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The area’s mental health care system is in a state of disrepair, but county officials have created a stop-gap plan Anyone involved in the local mental health system as a client, provider, administrator or family member has been familiar with the litany of faults and failures of […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was full. The closure of […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 When the state pulled the operating license for Pacific Gateway hospital after the death of a Mexican national this spring, the county was left without a secure evaluation and holding facility, according to Diane Linn, Multnomah County chair. And while other hospitals have designated psychiatric beds, there […]
From the Portland Business Journal, September 14, 2001. Not available elsewhere online. The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was […]
From the Portland Business Journal, September 14, 2001. Not available elsewhere online. When the state pulled the operating license for Pacific Gateway hospital after the death of a Mexican national this spring, the county was left without a secure evaluation and holding facility, according to Diane Linn, Multnomah County chair. And while other hospitals have […]
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