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Month: November 2017

A Multidisciplinary Model for Emergency Psychiatric Care

November 21, 2017
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Oregon health systems team up to integrate care for behavioral health patients Hospital & Health Networks – November 10, 2017 Chris Farentinos, M.P.H., is vice president of the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, Ore. Psychological well-being is essential to overall health. To provide effective health care, we must attend to and treat the […]

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1942: How one incident caused 47 patients to die at the Oregon State Hospital

November 21, 2017
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Salem Statesman Journal, November 20, 2017 A ghastly scene unfolded during dinner 75 years ago at Oregon State Hospital. Patients began dropping like flies after eating a batch of poisoned scrambled eggs, vomiting blood and writhing on the floor in agony. Some died within minutes, others succumbed hours later, 47 people in all. Officially, there […]

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Loved ones of mentally ill concerned with civil commitments

November 18, 2017
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The Medford Mail Tribune, November 17, 2017 Jason Coburn was sleeping under a train when it started moving, dragging him down the tracks and injuring his ribs. He later fell from an interstate bridge into a canal, breaking his leg and ankle, and was not found for two days. Surgeons put his bones together with […]

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Lincoln County pays $2.85 million in death of jail inmate Bradley Steven Thomas

November 14, 2017
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The Eugene Register-Guard – NOV. 14, 2017 Lincoln County has agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a mentally ill inmate who died in a county jail cell in 2015. A judge approved the settlement between the county and Waldport resident Bradley Steven Thomas’ family on […]

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NORCOR jail feels pressure of serving people with mental illness in Eastern Oregon

November 11, 2017
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The Dalles Chronicle – November 10, 2017 Last month, Regional Jail Administrator Bryan Brandenburg described a recent day at the regional jail that stood out for a frustrating reason: at one point, every inmate in the booking area belonged in a mental health facility. Instead, as regularly happens, they were put behind bars. Booking felt […]

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