August 2001 – Mental Health PDX

County approves steps to mend fractured mental health care

August 10, 2001

From The Oregonian, August 10, 2001 The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved the first phase of the county’s long-awaited mental health redesign. Commissioners also approved a budget outline for the acute-care plan but postponed until next month more specific — and potentially wrenching — decisions about how to pay for it. […]

Hospital shooting raises questions

August 6, 2001

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From the Portland Tribune, April 6, 2001 Family’s attorney will conduct an inquiry into death of mental patient An attorney for the family of 29-year-old Jose Santos Victor Mejia Poot, who was fatally shot by a Portland police officer at a psychiatric hospital last weekend, will continue her own inquiry into circumstances that led to […]