From the Corvallis Gazette Times, November 22, 2016 Employees at a residential psychiatric treatment facility for children in Corvallis routinely failed to perform mandatory welfare checks and falsified records to hide that fact, according to Oregon licensing records. The issues at the Children’s Farm Home came to light in August, when the state began investigating […]

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Psychiatric Services – November 2016 READ – The Concentration of Opioid Prescriptions by Providers and Among Patients in the Oregon Medicaid Program (PDF) Objective: This study examined the distribution of opioid prescribing across providers and patients and the extent to which concentrated distribution predicts opioid misuse. Methods: Using 2013 Oregon Medicaid claims and the National […]

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Eds. Note – this private plan for resolving homelessness was rejected by the Portland Housing Bureau in October 2016. READ – Portland Homeless Facility Feasibility Study (PDF) I am very pleased to send you a copy of the “Portland Homeless Facility Feasibility Study,” a part of the work supported by your generous contribution of funding, […]

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Salem Statesman Journal, November 16, 2016 Oregon State Hospital Superintendent Greg Roberts said 13 months ago that he would retire in December, but the search for his successor has gone awry, leading officials to begin anew and forcing Roberts to delay his retirement by five months or more. The chairwoman of the Oregon State Hospital Advisory […]

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