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From the Oregonian, June 3, 3013 When Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward walked into a committee meeting, she didn’t plan to reveal to the world that she has suffered from major depression for 15 years. “If I go two days without taking my medication, I can’t walk in the door of this building,” Steiner Hayward, D-Beaverton, […]
From the Northwest News Network, May 24, 2013 After last December’s mass shootings in Oregon and Connecticut, Democrats and Republicans in the Oregon legislature called for increased funding for mental health care. Now, there’s a proposal under discussion that would expand such programs in a big way, but it remains caught up in a debate […]
By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, Jan. 16, 2013 The road for the Oregon State Hospital in Junction City stretches across an open field, waiting to lead people to the state’s newest mental health facility. State officials have spent $61.8 million preparing the land in the Lane County town 15 miles northwest of Eugene. New water […]
From The Oregonian, May 26, 2012 The Psychiatric Security Review Board is fairly modest about its existence. There’s little useful information provided in a obvious place on the web – so we created this web site to list the staff contact information and relevant statutes. Filling in for a co-worker on the weekend shift, Jennifer […]
From the Eugene Register-Guard, February 27, 2012 There will be no new bond funding this year for the proposed state psychiatric hospital in Junction City, according to Gov. John Kitzhaber and several key lawmakers. But that doesn’t mean the project is stalled. State officials now acknowledge they in fact have $20 million in old funding […]
By Saul Hubbard, The (Eugene) Register-Guard, Feb. 22, 2012 SALEM — As the monthlong 2012 legislative session enters the home stretch, the fate of continued construction funding for the proposed new state psychiatric hospital in Junction City remains unclear. To keep the project moving through next June and the 174-bed hospital on track to open […]
From The Eugene Register Guard, January 22, 2012 Supporters of a planned psychiatric hospital in Junction City hope that isn’t the case, but it faces an uphill battle in the Oregon Legislature next month As soon as the rains slow this spring, preliminary construction work could begin on the long-promised state psychiatric hospital next to […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, November 28, 2011 The administrator of the $458 million Oregon State Hospital replacement project will shift to a new job early next year, becoming interim director of the state office of addictions and mental health treatment programs. Linda Hammond, who has steered construction of a soon-to-be-completed state hospital complex in […]
To: Addictions and Mental Health Services Interested Parties From: Bruce Goldberg, M.D., OHA Director Today I share news of the January retirement of Richard Harris, director of the Addictions and Mental Health Division. Richard has been a truly outstanding leader at AMH and OHA during more than three years of service. As many of you […]
From The Oregonian, November 18, 2010 The hope is that the new Oregon State Hospital will conjure images far different than what we all remember from the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The reality is that Oregon has a new, state-of-the-art mental hospital but some of the same old problems. In fact, even […]
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