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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 […]
From The Register-Guard, October 14, 2018 Sara Scofield doesn’t remembering calling 911 to report her own suicide attempt nearly 20 years ago. All she recalls is the sense of despair and pain she was feeling that day, waiting until she was alone, swallowing a handful of pills — and then waking up in the hospital. […]
Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare’s Garlington Campus Opens The Skanner – September 26, 2018 At a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by 250 supporters, including federal and county officials and community partners, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare celebrated the opening of its new Garlington Campus, home to the Garlington Health Center and Garlington Place Apartments Sept. 21 in Northeast Portland. The […]
READ – US DOJ OPPOSES inclusion of the Mental Health Alliance (PDF) READ – Portland Police Association OPPOSES inclusion of the Mental Health Alliance (PDF) READ – City of Portland OPPOSES inclusion of the Mental Health Alliance (PDF) UPDATE – Mental Health Alliance granted ‘friend of the court’ status in police reform case – October […]
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