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Redesigning Multnomah County’s Mental Health System

May 25, 2008
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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 […]

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Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/uncategorized/" rel="category tag">Uncategorized</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/beverly-stein/" rel="tag">Beverly Stein</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/cascadia/" rel="tag">Cascadia</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/diane-linn/" rel="tag">Diane Linn</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/ed-blackburn/" rel="tag">Ed Blackburn</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/kim-burgess/" rel="tag">Kim Burgess</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/mhasd/" rel="tag">MHASD</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/multnomah-county/" rel="tag">Multnomah County</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/multnomah-county-mental-health-task-force/" rel="tag">Multnomah County Mental Health Task Force</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/peter-davidson/" rel="tag">Peter Davidson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/robert-landauer/" rel="tag">Robert Landauer</a> Leave a comment

New approaches lower mental health expenses

June 6, 2004
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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 […]

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Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/mental-health/" rel="category tag">Mental Health</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/cascadia/" rel="tag">Cascadia</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/crisis-triage-center/" rel="tag">Crisis Triage Center</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/leslie-ford/" rel="tag">Leslie Ford</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/mark-shorr/" rel="tag">Mark Shorr</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/network-behavioral-healthcare/" rel="tag">Network Behavioral HealthCare</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/oregon-health-plan/" rel="tag">Oregon Health Plan</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/pacific-gateway-hospital/" rel="tag">Pacific Gateway Hospital</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/peter-davidson/" rel="tag">Peter Davidson</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/project-respond/" rel="tag">Project Respond</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/trillium-family-services/" rel="tag">Trillium Family Services</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/unity-inc/" rel="tag">Unity Inc</a> Leave a comment

Give county credit that is due

December 14, 2003
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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 […]

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Diminished care, diminishing returns

July 27, 2003
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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 […]

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County may stop mental treatments

February 22, 2003
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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 […]

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Seeking solutions state and counties study a tiny fraction of deaths of patients in Oregon’s mental health system

December 31, 2002
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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. […]

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Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/mental-health/" rel="category tag">Mental Health</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/amelia-scott/" rel="tag">Amelia Scott</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/bob-nikkel/" rel="tag">Bob Nikkel</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/cascadia/" rel="tag">Cascadia</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/department-of-human-services/" rel="tag">Department of Human Services</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/elise-john/" rel="tag">Elise John</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/eva-kutas/" rel="tag">Eva Kutas</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/greg-monaco/" rel="tag">Greg Monaco</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/mark-shorr/" rel="tag">Mark Shorr</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/norrine-sharkey/" rel="tag">Norrine Sharkey</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/peter-davidson/" rel="tag">Peter Davidson</a> 2 Comments

Free to Die

December 30, 2002
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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 […]

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Free to Die Man Falls Through System’s Cracks to His Death

December 30, 2002
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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 […]

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Radical Shrink

May 15, 2002
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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 […]

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Closure of Pacific Gateway adds pressure to ER

September 16, 2001
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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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Posted in <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/category/health-care/" rel="category tag">Health Care</a> Tagged <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/diane-linn/" rel="tag">Diane Linn</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/oregon-dhs/" rel="tag">Oregon DHS</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/pacific-gateway/" rel="tag">Pacific Gateway</a>, <a href="https://www.mentalhealthportland.org/tag/peter-davidson/" rel="tag">Peter Davidson</a> Leave a comment

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