Portland hospitals increasingly dump psychiatric patients in long-term ER beds
Willamette Week, July 16, 2014 Jennifer Ann has found herself in Portland emergency rooms more than two dozen times in the past 20 years—almost always for the same reason. “Usually I go,” she says, “because I feel I’m going to kill myself.” On good days, Jennifer Ann, 56, is a high-functioning mother of four. She’s […]