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KEZI.com, July 12, 2014 The Oregon Health Authority recently released a study that said suicide is the number one cause of death for Oregon veterans under 45 who likely served in Iraq or Afghanistan. READ – Suicide among Oregon veterans 2008-2012 (PDF, 347KB) On average, from 2008 to 2012, veteran suicide increased from about […]
Eugene Register Guard, June 23, 2014 Already pilloried for long wait times for medical appointments, the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs has fallen short of another commitment: to attend to the needs of the rising ranks of female veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them of child-bearing age. Even the head of the […]
KOIN 6 News, June 2, 2014 The new director of Portland VA Medical Center says the hospital is committed to improving the wait of patients by fall. More than 1,300 veterans are currently on the waiting list at Portland’s VA and new patients wait an average of 56 days to get care. Joanne Krumberger, the […]
From the Oregonian, September 9, 2013 Brady Hammer, an Oregon National Guard soldier who died in Texas on July 28 from what El Paso police say was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was a “happy-go-lucky person,” according to his sister. READ – Brady Hammer’s obituary. But the 24-year-old’s moods were affected by a confusing cocktail of […]
By Scott Mendelson, MD, The Huffington Post, April 17, 2013 I am a psychiatrist, and I work at a VA hospital in the state of Oregon. I see veterans on a daily basis in our outpatient mental health clinic and acute psychiatric inpatient unit. All of the veterans I see have had extensive training in […]
By Kevin Freking, Associated Press, March 3 2012 Two years after Congress passed a high-profile law to improve health care for military veterans, lawmakers and advocates are again raising alarms that the sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs is not expanding help for the nation’s former fighters and their families as quickly or widely as intended. […]
Portland Housing Bureau, ‘News from PHB’, February 14, 2012 The Portland Housing Bureau is investing over $9 million in nonprofit developers to build and preserve affordable rental homes. Last fall, PHB announced the availability of funding through a competitive process and invited developers to submit proposals for either new construction or repair of existing apartments […]
By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian , Oct. 31, 2009 Later, after the defense attorney wept and the judge put away his robe and the jurors drove home in the fading light, the consequences of war hung over this town of 1,845 like wood smoke on an autumn eve. Fourteen months earlier, a young woman lay […]
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