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Two lawsuits filed against Unity Center by patients and family members

January 26, 2021
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Discharged Portland patient, found handcuffed and shivering in ambulance bay, plans to sue Unity psychiatric hospital Oregonian – November 23, 2020 An attorney for a man ordered out of Portland’s psychiatric hospital a year ago and left handcuffed in the ambulance bay while police were called has filed a notice of intent to sue Unity […]

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Letter to Gov. Brown about students and mental illness

January 19, 2021
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Sent by email January 19, 2021 Dear Governor Brown, First, thank you again for appearing virtually at our December 2020 Oregon Housing Conference to welcome the 450+ attendees. Your comments were thoughtful in the midst of the crisis of our lifetime. Members and supporters of the Mental Health Association of Portland appreciate your concern for […]

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Oregon Addiction Data extracted from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health

January 18, 2021
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Oregon Addiction Data extracted from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, December 2020 The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides national and state-level data on the use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs (including the non-medical use of prescription drugs) and mental health in the United States. Information from NSDUH is […]

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Psychotic Break: Benton County’s Broken Mental Health System

January 10, 2021
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From the Corvallis Advocate, JANUARY 9, 2021 by Andy Thompson Editor’s Note: The names and other identifying information of the family in this story have been changed For family and other onlookers, a psychotic break can look like someone that’s suddenly devolved into delusional thoughts or paranoia, and even hallucinations. Angela Jaffrey puts it this […]

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As COVID-19 unit nears capacity, Oregon State Hospital suspends admissions again

January 8, 2021
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From the Oregonian, January 8, 2021 As a growing coronavirus outbreak at the Oregon State Hospital fills up the facility’s lone COVID-19 unit, administrators this week moved to stop admitting new patients so they can use the available space for more quarantine beds. U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman agreed to allow the psychiatric hospital […]

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Oregon State Hospital and COVID

October 16, 2020
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This post documents the impact of COVID on the Oregon State Hospital. COVID arrived in Oregon March 2020. First OSH patient tests positive for COVID-19 OHA PRESS RELEASE Thursday, October 15, 2020 Oregon State Hospital is reporting its first patient to test positive for COVID-19. The patient began exhibiting symptoms Oct. 11 and was immediately […]

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Homeless and with issues: County building may help

October 14, 2020
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Portland Tribune October 13 2020 Trauma-informed design is one part of the new five floor center downtown opening in 2022 to help the chronically homeless. Some things don’t change in a recession: local government keeps spending and building as it addresses some of the worst crises Portland faces. In 2019, the Multnomah County board of […]

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Audit Finds Oregon’s Mental Health System in Disarray, Lacks Leadership

October 9, 2020
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The Lund Report – September 2020 READ – Chronic and Systemic Issues in Oregon’s Mental Health Treatment System Leave Children and Their Families in Crisis (PDF) A 9-year-old boy waited in a hotel room for more than 100 days while waiting for mental health care. A 16-year-old girl with a history of sexual exploitation and […]

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Federal & State Oversight Fault Unity Center – Again – Following Complaints, Failure To Protect Patients

September 30, 2020
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From the Lund Report, September 28, 2020 State and federal authorities have launched a new crackdown at Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland following complaints that the psychiatric emergency hospital has failed yet again to keep fragile mental health patients safe. The latest list of issues is long: Sexual encounters in a bathroom. An […]

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In Place of Police: The Oregon Experiment

September 23, 2020
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From the New York Review of Books, September 20, 2020 Eugene, Oregon—Every call that is dispatched through the radio, twenty-four hours a day, to the CAHOOTS crisis responders is a tiny mystery, a staticky, incomplete assemblage of details. “White female in her thirties, brown hair, black mid-length shirt, last seen on Sixth, yelling and running […]

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