Bay Area Hospital turns away man despite hold order The Coos Bay World Dec 6, 2016 COOS BAY — The Bay Area Hospital on Saturday turned away a Coos Bay man as too dangerous to hold despite a hold order being placed on the man by the director of Coos County Health and Wellness. Coos […]
Mail Tribune, Dec. 21, 2016 A major client of Jackson County Mental Health is pulling its patients – putting a halt to the county’s ambitious plans for expansion and new hires. Whether layoffs will result because of the reduction in Oregon Health Plan patients served by the county is yet to be determined, mental health […]
The Bend Bulletin, Oct. 20, 2016 The abuse of prescription pain killers and illegal drugs has tripled the rate of opiate overdoses in the U.S. since 2000. Every day, 78 people die of heroin or prescription opiate overdose, a rate of about one person every 20 minutes. Yet, the nation’s capacity to treat opioid addiction […]
Turning Point By: Ben Lonergan Sitting quietly in the passenger seat of a squeaky, white van, Brenton Gicker types quietly on a laptop as police dispatch rattles off instructions over the radio. Gicker, an eight-year veteran of White Bird Clinic’s Crisis Assistance Helping Out on The Streets (CAHOOTS), is employed by the city as a crisis […]
KVAL, Dec. 12, 2016 CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets), a free, confidential mobile crisis clinic staffed by counselors and medics, is extending will begin operating 24 hours a day in Eugene beginning January 1. “Things like homelessness never sleeps. People are always homeless. Suicidality never sleeps. Mental health doesn’t sleep,” CAHOOTS Crisis […]
Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare is planning for a new facility that combines treatment, resources and housing. Ground is scheduled to be broken this summer on 1.5 acres in Northeast Portland. A two-story, 29,000-square-foot center will provide integrated primary care, behavioral health and wellness services. Next door, a four-story apartment building will hold 52 units – including […]
Op Ed from Medford Mail Tribune, December 11, 2016 As predictable as Gov. Kate Brown’s budget proposal is, with its mixture of sin-tax increases and various spending tweaks, one big budget cut came as a surprise. Brown proposes to permanently close a new state mental hospital in Junction City less than two years after it […]
Op Ed from Eugene Register Guard, December 8, 2016 Gov. Kate Brown’s plan to close the Junction City psychiatric hospital to help fill a $1.7 billion gap in the state budget came as a shock to just about everybody — the people who run the hospital, state legislators, patients’ families and the Junction City mayor […]
From the Lund Report, December 2016 It’s unclear if the Legislature will actually approve the closure of the Junction City as the same forces that won $130 million to build it over the concerns of the mental health community will fight to save it. But it’s possible it could be used as a prison hospital […]
From the Eugene Register-Guard, December 10, 2016 By Gary Crum In 2012, I was an outspoken opponent of plans to build the State Mental Hospital that now stands between Junction City and Eugene. Along with every patients’ advocacy group, virtually every professional in the field of mental health care, every professional mental health professional organization […]
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