Oregon State Hospital chief wasn’t privy to critical report
Posted by admin2 on 2nd April 2006
From the Salem Statesman Journal, April 1 2009
Superintendent Roy Orr disputes assertion of a lack of urgency
Oregon State Hospital Superintendent Roy Orr said Tuesday that he didn’t become aware of a recent report critical of hospital management until it appeared in the press.
“I only learned of that report this morning,” Orr told the Statesman Journal Editorial Board. “To be clear, Judge Hargreaves never worked for me or the state hospital. He reported to the governor, so I was never privy to the reports, oral or written, that he made to the governor.”
Former judge James Hargreaves spent a year tracking hospital reforms at the behest of Gov. Ted Kulongoski.
Hargreaves said in his final report, dated Feb. 23 and released this week, that the facility has made progress. But he also asserted that hospital managers lacked urgency and showed little understanding about the need for planning and goals.
Orr said he learned about the report just before meeting with the newspaper’s editorial board.
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