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By Martin Gonzalez, the coordinator of the Justice for Jose Mejia Poot Committee and member of the Portland School Board, and Dan Handelman, who participated in the Committee and is a member of Portland Copwatch. Today, April 1, 2011 marks 10 years to the day since day laborer Jose Santos Victor Mejia Poot was shot […]
From the Portland Tribune, November 6 2008 Safety concerns prompt OHSU to mull gun rules – Lethal weapons in psychiatic unit may put patients at risk The head of public safety at Oregon Health & Science University wants officers such as Jess Gillies to be able carry guns, which currently is illegal. The university has […]
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 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 Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The area’s mental health care system is in a state of disrepair, but county officials have created a stop-gap plan Anyone involved in the local mental health system as a client, provider, administrator or family member has been familiar with the litany of faults and failures of […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was full. The closure of […]
From the Portland Business Journal, September 14, 2001. Not available elsewhere online. The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was […]
From the Portland Business Journal, September 14, 2001. Not available elsewhere online. When the state pulled the operating license for Pacific Gateway hospital after the death of a Mexican national this spring, the county was left without a secure evaluation and holding facility, according to Diane Linn, Multnomah County chair. And while other hospitals have […]
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 […]
From the Portland Tribune, April 27, 2001 Portland police officers on Thursday were cleared of wrongdoing by a Multnomah County grand jury in the arrest and subsequent fatal shooting of Jose Santos Victor Mejia Poot on April 1 at a Sellwood psychiatric hospital. The grand jury ruled that Portland police officer Jeffrey Bell did not […]
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