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KATU.com – December 21, 2018 A man is accused of attacking someone with a hatchet in downtown Portland, and court documents state that mental health issues may have played a role in the incident. The suspect, 35-year-old Nathan Shrader, pleaded not guilty to the attack. The other man involved did not need to go to […]
Portland Tribune, December 04, 2018 Investigators found 16 Unity Center cases should have gone to cops. County employees scrutinized. An internal review of how Multnomah County employees handled cases of alleged abuse and neglect of mentally ill people from greater Portland has spawned a criminal investigation, the Portland Tribune has learned. Among the issues that […]
Program in Eugene, Ore., is viewed as a model for reducing risk of violence Wall Street Journal – November 30, 2018 (SEE PDF FOR PHOTOGRAPHS) They are the kind of calls that roll into police departments with growing regularity: a man in mental crisis; a woman hanging out near a dumpster at an upscale apartment […]
Ruane Oliverio was moved out of a locked residential facility for people mental illness, despite warnings that she could get hurt. She ended up injured and hospitalized multiple times, and is now at the Oregon State Hospital. – Nov 17, 2018 Moving Oregonians with mental illness out of locked facilities was the goal. But things […]
Crowding, Boarding, and Patient Throughput (PDF) Position Statement from the Emergency Nurses Association with massive bibliography December 2017 Emergency Department Boarding of Psychiatric Patients in Oregon (PDF) Oregon Health Authority – no author listed February 1, 2017 Psychiatric Boarding in the Pediatric Inpatient Medical Setting: A Retrospective Analysis Katherine A.S. Gallagher, PhD, I. Simona Bujoreanu, […]
From KATU.com, November 8, 2018 READ – Corrections Grand Jury 2018 Report – Review of the Correctional Facilities In Multnomah County, Oregon (PDF) A corrections grand jury highlighted concerns related to mental illness, staffing and overcrowding in Multnomah County jails in an annual report card released Thursday. In the past year the county was forced […]
From Portland Tribune, November 8, 2018 An emergency room doctor told Christopher Adrian Garcia’s family that ‘the system failed him.’ Authorities are investigating. Deep in the throes of psychosis three weeks ago, Christopher Adrian Garcia, 35, was asking for help. At other times, he was intent upon killing himself. This message, his family says, was […]
Dr. Joseph H. Treleaven, Born 07/16/1926, Died: 10/08/2018 Joe Treleaven died on October 8, 2018 at age 92 in his home in Salem, Oregon. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Joe had many fond memories of his early childhood living on a farm out in the prairies. In 1949 he married Catherine Connolly and […]
Family to file suit over police shooting death – Medford Tribune, October 26, 2018 A lawyer representing the parents of a mentally ill man shot dead by Eagle Point police in a Carl’s Jr. bathroom said they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Eagle Point Police Department after seeing bodycam footage of […]
A conversation with Bob Joondeph & Nigel Jaquiss of the Willamette Week, October 24, 2018 Without Bob Joondeph, many of the 700,000 disabled Oregonians would be worse off. Joondeph, 68, started work at the federally funded civil rights watchdog group Disability Rights Oregon in 1986 and became the group’s executive director in 1991. DRO led […]
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