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The Register-Guard, July 26, 2015 Oregon’s 16 coordinated care organizations were set up to provide health care for some of the state’s poorest residents, Medicaid patients. Yet 10 of the 16 CCOs are for-profit companies, and there are no limits placed on how much profit they can make. “I’m not aware of any (caps on […]
From The Corvallis Gazette Times, November 27, 2011 It was supposed to cost $4.5 million to renovate Old School at the Children’s Farm Home on Highway 20 between Albany and Corvallis, but an unanticipated septic system upgrade has bumped the cost up another million. Now Trillium Family Services, which operates the Farm Home as a […]
From the Albany Democrat-Herald, June 4, 2011 An investigation into the death of a girl found dead in her bed on May 26 at the [Trillium Family Services] Children’s Farm Home has concluded that the teenager took her own life. According to the Benton County District Attorney’s Office, D.A. John Haroldson personally reviewed the case […]
From The Portland Business Journal, August 5, 2007 Oregon’s largest children’s mental health service provider is reeling from a $2 million blow to its budget. Trillium Family Services has laid off 30 workers, shuttered an inpatient program, and is making an aggressive play for private commercial contracts to offset a $2.6 million reduction in government […]
From The Portland Business Journal, December 6, 2006 Trillium Family Services has received a $2 million donation that will jump-start renovations at the Trillium Children’s Farm Home campus in Corvallis. The donation, from Dave and Penny Lowther of Philomath, is the second-largest gift in the agency’s 130-year history. The donation also serves as the lead […]
DATE: January 31, 2005 TO: Interested Persons FROM: Robert E. Nikkel, MSW – Administrator RE: Closure of Adolescent Treatment Services at the Oregon State Hospital The Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OMHAS) has had a long-standing goal to develop community-based treatment alternatives to the Oregon State Hospital (OSH) for […]
Department of Human Services Office of Mental Health & Addiction Services DATE: January 31, 2005 TO: Interested Persons FROM: Robert E. Nikkel, MSW, Administrator RE: Closure of Adolescent Treatment Services at the Oregon State Hospital READ – the full formatted document here. The Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OMHAS) […]
From The Portland Business Journal, June 6, 2004 Four years ago, Multnomah County’s mental health care system, like so many of its patients, was in crisis. People struggling with severe but manageable mental illnesses were unnecessarily hospitalized at great expense. Lack of adequate emergency services and poor coordination among Portland-area mental health agencies led to […]
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