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By Carla Castano, KOIN 6 News, Oct. 11, 2013 Documents obtained in a KOIN 6 News investigation show people with severe mental health illnesses were given one-way tickets from a state-run hospital in Nevada to Portland. Accusations of “patient dumping” first surfaced in California in April. Now, KOIN 6 News learned the same state-run psychiatric […]
From Street Roots, October 10, 2013 They were given a bus ticket along with a few days worth of medication and food. They traveled long distances to cities in California where they arrived as strangers. Their journeys have sparked outrage and lawsuits. Now there are calls to find out if it happened in Oregon. Following […]
As we surmised, clinical staff from Rawson-Neal Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada bussed persons with mental illness to Oregon. According to records collected by the Sacramento Bee, 33 patients of Rawson-Neal were sent by bus to Oregon, 22 to Portland. According to testimony from some of these people taken by reporters in San Francisco and […]
SENT BY EMAIL, September 16, 2013 To: Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum: The Mental Health Association of Portland has been following the case of James Flavy Coy Brown, who was released from Nevada’s Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital without discharge planning and transported by bus to Sacramento, where he was found, suicidal and confused, at a homeless […]
From The Oregonian, August 30, 2012 Oregon will receive more than $4.2 million under a multi-state settlement over alleged illegal marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. The consumer protection settlement announced this morning is based on a long-running investigation into whether Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, paid kickbacks to providers to […]
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