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From The Oregonian, February 20, 2015 A woman suffering from a severe mental illness sat locked in isolation in a Yamhill County jail for 10 days awaiting a state psychiatric bed. She was suicidal, hearing voices and unable to get proper medication to treat her psychosis. She was never charged with a crime. Three judges […]
By Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian, June 18, 2013 The executive director of the Psychiatric Security Review Board has resigned. Mary Claire Buckley‘s resignation is effective as of Aug. 15, board chairwoman Kate Lieber said at the board’s meeting Tuesday evening. The terms were not released. Buckley has been on paid administrative leave since May 2 […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, October 20, 2012 Klamath County Mental Health will be fined $325,000 by the state office conducting an audit of the department’s billing practices, according to a draft settlement agreement and draft final order from the Oregon Department of Human Services. The amount is a negotiated settlement that is lower […]
From The Oregonian, December 7, 2011 Fewer children in Oregon foster care were prescribed psychiatric drugs last year after a new law forced child welfare officials to monitor the medications more closely. But state data also show many children brought into state care as a result of neglect or abuse are not getting timely mental […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, November 10, 2011 State’s study of publicly funded addiction services surprises administrator, who discovers that more people are staying clean and having fewer mental-health issues Until recently, it was unclear what happened to Oregon’s recovering addicts after receiving publicly funded treatment. The state knew some information about clients when they […]
From the Eugene Register Guard, June 25, 2011 A $5 million allocation from the Legislature is a fraction of the projected cost, but sources say the proposal is just delayed Legislators are close to unveiling a proposal that would allocate $5 million for infrastructure costs over the next two years for the state psychiatric hospital […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, January 22, 2011 Kaufman Global is not a household name in Oregon. But the Indiana-based consulting firm is well known to leaders of the state Department of Human Services. Since 2007, DHS has awarded Kaufman Global three contracts for consulting services, and the firm has played an influential role in […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, November 20, 2010 Now what? That question looms for Oregon leaders in the wake of a letter sent last week to Attorney General John Kroger by a top lawyer in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The two-page letter, which arrived on the eve of Thursday’s […]
Dear OSH Advisory Board Members: I have some news to share with you regarding the USDOJ investigation of the hospital. After yesterday’s meeting, I learned that the Attorney General received a letter indicating that the USDOJ was expanding the scope of its investigation at the Oregon State Hospital to include community-based mental health services. I […]
From The Lund Report, November 15, 2010 A statewide commission will urge legislators to create a drug czar to oversee drug and alcohol addiction programs Healthcare costs associated with alcohol and drug abuse amounted to $3.2 billion during 2006 in Oregon – while 70 percent of people who were incarcerated had a substance abuse problem. […]
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