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How Portland and Oregon Have Historically Dealt with Mental Illness—and What It Means for Us Today The Portland Mercury, Oct. 5, 2016 One of the oldest mental hospitals in the US is the still-standing Friends Hospital in Philadelphia. Founded in 1813 by Quakers, the institution did not always have such a brief name. It was […]
The Register-Guard, April 21, 2016 When a state psychiatric hospital has empty beds, it’s a good sign for Oregon’s health system and for people who struggle with mental illness. While a March 22 Register-Guard story focused on unopened beds at the Oregon State Hospital facility in Junction City, Oregon’s state hospitals are grappling with a […]
The Lund Report, April 13, 2016 The view from behind the gray concrete walls of the Oregon State Hospital in Junction City looks out upon the yellow-green bucolic plain of the Willamette Valley to dark green foothills on both sides of Lane County. The view inside the immaculate hospital is of a fresh, bunkered community […]
Note: The Mental Health Association of Portland opposed building this institution. For example, see our op-ed in the Register-Guard, “Junction City hospital the worst way to treat mentally ill.” Oregon State Hospital officials are celebrating the first anniversary of the mental-health agency’s $84 million Junction City campus, but the secure residential facility on Highway 99 […]
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