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In 1999, in the wake of the shuttering of Garlington Center, several public deaths of people with mental illness, and a distressing countywide site review by the state mental health division, a wide-open, concerted, public conversation about Portland’s mental health system was launched by County Chair Beverly Stein. The conversation became more complex as the […]
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 […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, December 14, 2003. Not available elsewhere online. The Multnomah County crisis line (503-988-4888) dispatched the county’s mobile crisis unit, Project Respond of Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, to one of about 150 calls for mental -health assistance it receives weekly from the public and police. Julie Larson of […]
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 […]
From The Oregonian – February 22, 2003, no longer online Multnomah County notified the Oregon Department of Human Services on Friday that it is terminating its mental health outpatient contract under the Oregon Health Plan because of drastically cut state money. The decision could mean the end of county-provided help to about 10,000 indigent adults […]
From The Oregonian, December 31, 2002 – not available online For more than a decade, Oregon has relied on county mental health agencies to investigate themselves when a mentally ill patient dies under their care. The result: County officials have faulted their own conduct in only two of 247 deaths during the past 3-1/2 years. […]
From The Oregonian, December 30, 2002 – not available elsewhere online In the past three decades Oregon has made it much harder to send mentally ill people to institutions against their will. Today, those laws prevent some of the most severely ill Oregonians from getting the treatment they need. An investigation by The Oregonian has […]
From The Oregonian, December 30, 2002 In the end, all Randy Wike could find to love about life was his 3-year-old son and Ice House beer — he drank a case a day to mute the symptoms of a mental illness that had debilitated him since he was a teenager. By age 30, it no […]
From the Willamette Week, May 15, 2002 It’s loud. It’s messy. It’s nasty. But psychiatrist Peter Davidson is determined to rescue Portland’s mentally ill–whether they like it or not. There’s something about Dr. Peter Davidson that drives certain people–well, crazy. Most won’t say so in public. In public, they are unfailingly respectful to the maverick […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 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 designated psychiatric beds, there […]
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