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The Lund Report, Oct. 9, 2014 The director for the state Addictions and Mental Health Division laid down a concrete proposal at Tuesday’s Oregon Health Policy Board meeting that could go a long way toward reforming the Oregon mental health system and freeing up capacity at the state mental hospital. Director Pam Martin wants the […]
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. […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, June 21, 2014 When Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, pushed for increased spending on mental health care in 2013, the one thing he feared might happen was the money wouldn’t make it to the people and places it was needed. Lawmakers allocated $65.1 million to the Oregon Health Authority […]
The Oregonian, Jan. 24, 2014 A U.S. Justice Department investigator Friday, in a letter to a supervisor, outlined the steps that Oregon mental health care officials have promised to take in response to a federal report this month criticizing Oregon’s community-based mental health care system. Judy Preston, deputy chief of the special litigation section in […]
The Oregonian, Jan. 24, 2014 A U.S. Justice Department investigator Friday, in a letter to a supervisor, outlined the steps that Oregon mental health care officials have promised to take in response to a federal report this month criticizing Oregon’s community-based mental health care system. READ – Judy Preston’s letter to supervisor John Dunbar, DOJ, […]
Harry Lane – physician, advocate for women’s and Native American rights, two-time mayor of Portland, Federal senator, dapper fellow and superintendent of the Oregon State Insane Asylum. He hired the first female police officer, Lola Baldwin, in the US. He also hired sculptress Alice Cooper to create Oregon’s finest statue – Sacajawea, located in Portland’s […]
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