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From The Skanner News, November 12, 2009 New commission seeks to improve patchwork system In a nondescript brick building next to Providence Hospital, Dr. Andy Antoniskis operates a comprehensive, two-week medical detoxification program. For certain drugs – mainly alcohol and opioids – getting medically detoxified can be a matter of life and death. For those […]
Portland Tribune, November 2008 Hospital restraint figures revealed – State to make public quarterly data about psychiatric units The data described in this article is available online. Adult Seclusion and Restraint Occurrences Per 1000 Patient Days: 1st Quarter 2008 (PDF) (NOTE: DHS has linked to data which DOES NOT provide facility-specific information for adults, as […]
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 Oregonian, June 8, 1999 – not elsewhere online THE CITY LINKS WITH THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A CONFERENCE BROADCAST LIVE TO 6,000 SITES NATIONWIDE Sandy Hayden suddenly sat up in her threadbare easy chair and focused on the television. It was January, and President [Bill] Clinton had just announced plans for a White […]
From The Oregonian, December 6, 1996 – not elsewhere online For 18 years, Metro Crisis Line workers have helped the depressed, the suicidal, the sleepless. But money problems will force the state’s largest and oldest crisis line to close in mid-January, and a new crisis line will take its place. The Metro Crisis Line relied […]
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