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Gresham Outlook – August 24, 2018 Planned brewery would be next door to a treatment center for Native American youths A controversy is brewing in Gresham. Inner Fire Brewing is attempting to open a location in Gresham at 633 E. Powell Blvd., placing it adjacent to a treatment center focused on helping Native American youths […]
Testimony for Multnomah County Commission – August 23, 2018 Beckie and I are here today to speak about the safety of thousands of patients at Unity Center, and in the dozens of other hospitals, clinics, alcohol and drug treatment centers, nursing homes, jails, daycare centers, schools, adult foster homes, residential care facilities, mental health treatment […]
OP – ED published in the Portland Tribune, August 14, 2018 Author Dean Gisvold is a Portland attorney, a board member emeritus of Central City Concern, a board member of Network for Affordable Housing (NOAH); reach him at dpgisvold AT gmail.com. Recent articles in the Portland Tribune and emails from the Portland Police Association (PPA) […]
Portland Business Journal – August 7, 2018 The psychiatric center’s leader is confident it can make fixes by Sept. 11 to keep state, federal compliance In five weeks, the Unity Center for Behavioral Health faces a crucial milestone: Will the psychiatric facility retain or lose its federal certification, and ability to receive reimbursement from Medicare […]
Portland Business Journal – August 6, 2018 Legacy Health has publicly released its action plan to correct deficiencies at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health, which came under fire by state regulators for safety problems, including harm to patients and suicide attempts. Legacy initially deferred answering questions about how the 18-month-old psychiatric facility had responded […]
Portland Business Journal – August 1, 2018 Critics of the Unity Center’s open floor plan say mixing in patients who present voluntarily with those who are there involuntarily can create a volatile and over-stimulating environment. When Portland’s first and only psychiatric emergency department opened in late January last year, hopes ran high that the Unity […]
The Unity Center for Behavioral Health started turning most patients away on Saturday. The Lund Report – August 1, 2018 Our Unity Archive is available here. Portland hospitals have stepped up to treat patients experiencing mental health crises amid the decision by the area’s only psychiatric emergency hospital to turn most patients away. The Unity […]
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