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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 […]
Eugene Weekly, Sept. 24, 2015 Last week I walked through the hallways of the Oregon State Hospital in Junction City. It felt like being locked into a Holiday Inn Suites … with psychiatric workers keeping an eye on you. Earlier in the week, strolling the halls of PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center University District felt like […]
The Lund Report, September 18, 2014 Oregon’s efforts to improve community mental health services came into focus at this week’s quarterly legislative days, with the director of the Addictions and Mental Health Division at the Oregon Health Authority discussing a long list of investments the state has made into county-based and other local programs. Eds. […]
Willamette Week, July 16, 2014 Jennifer Ann has found herself in Portland emergency rooms more than two dozen times in the past 20 years—almost always for the same reason. “Usually I go,” she says, “because I feel I’m going to kill myself.” On good days, Jennifer Ann, 56, is a high-functioning mother of four. She’s […]
The Junction City project was a bad idea at inception. The closer it gets to reality, the worse an idea it becomes. We have been solidly, vocally opposed since Day One to building a new institution of segregated care at Junction City. Unfortunately, although our efforts had an impact, they were not sufficient to […]
Thank you all for sharing your comments with me. [ Kotek is responding to MHAP’s petition to stop construction of the proposed psychiatric hospital at Junction City. ] Federal standards require people needing hospital level care to receive treatment in a hospital setting. In order to maintain an appropriate amount of hospital beds, the Legislature […]
By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, May 14, 2013 The Oregon Legislature appears poised to give a planned mental hospital in Junction City $80 million, despite the fact that mental health advocates loathe the idea. READ – “Junction City hospital the worst way to treat mentally ill” (MHAP guest column in Eugene Register-Guard) As WW reported in January, […]
By Chris McKee, KMTR.com, Jan. 23, 2013 Eds. Note: The MHAP and most everyone associated with the mental health business – aside from those employed to build hospitals – oppose building a new psychiatric hospital / prison at Junction City. As the new Oregon State Hospital remains under construction near Junction City, the area’s electricity […]
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