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From The Portland Business Journal, May 30, 2010 Mental health care provider returns to profitability and starts building a cash reserve Two years after a financial meltdown nearly destroyed Multnomah County’s safety net for the mentally ill, the nonprofit at the center of the crisis has rebounded. Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare Inc. is a shadow of […]
From the Oregonian, July 10 2008 Too much trust in leaders, too little oversight put Cascadia Behavioral on financial brink for years The books were a mess. Staff shifted money around day to day just to keep clinics running and employees paid. The company was hemorrhaging cash and had maxed out its line of credit. […]
From the Portland Business Journal, April 24, 2008 Leslie Ford is stepping down as Chief Executive of Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare Inc., Oregon’s largest provider of mental health and addictions treatment services. Ford held the post for more than six years, and previously served for 13 years as the CEO of Network Behavioral Healthcare Inc., an […]
From The Oregonian, November 7, 2007 – not available online As Joshua Shane Overstreet was booked into jail on a heroin count, the warning signs quickly added up. The 18-year-old told jail staff that he had been diagnosed with suicidal depression. His mother, when contacted by telephone, warned that Overstreet was unstable, a danger to […]
From The Portland Business Journal, February 5, 2006 Urgent-care patients from Portland get sent to facilities Over a recent holiday weekend, three Portland-area patients needing emergency mental health care were sent out of town for help. One patient ended up in a Medford hospital; the other two went to Corvallis. The reason: Not one Portland-area […]
From the Oregonian, December 29, 2005 Donita Diamata, director of consumer affairs for Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, is managing two thorny problems. For one, she’s mediating between an upset advocacy group of 14 Cascadia clients, whom she helped organize, and the person they are unhappy with, who happens to be her boss. At the same time, […]
From The Portland Business Journal, June 27, 2005 ASAP Treatment Services, a Portland agency offering substance abuse therapy, will become a set of specialized services within Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, the agencies announced. Termed a merger, the deal will be final July 1. The combined agencies will take the name Cascadia. “Joining together with ASAP advances […]
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 […]
From the Oregonian, July 27, 2003 Cutting mental health services to patients such as Douglas Bean has cost Oregon more money than it is saving Douglas Bean was a quiet success story for the psychiatrists and others who struggled to treat him. After more than 30 years in and out of state hospitals, he was […]
Cascadia announces reductions, bracing for more state budget cuts, while reorganizing mental health services to further cut high hospitalization rates; Cascadia press release 10/24/02 Contact: Mark Schorr, Communications Director (503) 238-0780 xt 245 Schorr@cascadiabhc.org Multnomah County’s largest nonprofit provider of mental health services, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, Inc, announced plans today to sharply reduce expenses and […]
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