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Three Oregon Hospital Systems Sue State Over Psychiatric Logjam Lund Report – September 28, 2022 Three Oregon hospital systems have joined forces to sue the Oregon Health Authority for allegedly forcing them to give long-term care to civilly-committed mental health patients that they are not designed to provide. Legacy Health, Providence Health & Services and […]
The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon – Same wine, different bottle By Steve Law Originally published in the Portland Tribune in August 2022 and reposted here with permission of the author. READ – Part 1: The Klan arrives in Portland READ – Part 2: The Klan seizes power statewide READ – Part 3: A push […]
Meth has changed, and it’s sabotaging Oregon’s mental health system Two Part story from the Lund Report, posted August 4 and August 5, 2022 In the state with the highest rate of meth use in the nation, the drug is driving severe mental illness among criminal defendants at the state psychiatric hospital, and other patients […]
The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon – The Klan self-destructs By Steve Law Originally published in the Portland Tribune in August 2022 and reposted here with permission of the author. READ – Part 1: The Klan arrives in Portland READ – Part 2: The Klan seizes power statewide READ – Part 3: A push to […]
HB 2417 Report: Statewide Coordinated Crisis Services System (PDF) In 2021, through HB 2417, the Oregon legislature appropriated $15 million to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to establish 988 call centers and enhance mobile crisis services. The bill also directed OHA to identify an implementation plan for Crisis Receiving Centers as part of the state’s […]
Willamette Week – July 20, 2022 Some of Portland’s largest providers of substance abuse disorder treatment are furious at the way tens of millions of dollars in new funding are being allocated in Multnomah County. There’s a lot of cash at stake: $59 million of new funding from Measure 110 for Multnomah County providers alone. […]
Portland Business Journal, July 21, 2022 Multnomah County and seven other behavioral health providers expressed disappointment with how Measure 110 grants have been allocated and are asking the Oregon Health Authority to reconsider. The organizations detail their criticisms — missed opportunities, lack of fairness and innovation and “rushed and poorly developed” application materials — in […]
Measure 110 was approved by Oregon voters in the November 2020 election and decriminalized most Possession of a Controlled Substance (PCS) offenses as of February 1, 2021. Those PCS offenses now have a maximum $100 fine and no jail or other criminal penalties. Measure 110 also provided funding for substance use disorder assessment, treatment, and […]
<a href=”https://www.thelundreport.org/content/state%E2%80%99s-lack-funding-hits-behavioral-health-care-providers-double-whammy”>From The Lund Report, January 13, 2021</a> In 2017, Oregon scored a rare win in its efforts to reform the state’s heavily criticized behavioral health care system. Oregon became one of just eight states nationwide to join a federal pilot program for community behavioral health care clinics. The program offered providers a chance to […]
Directive to continue addressing the statewide Aid & Assist crisis To: Margie Cooper Stanton, Director, Health Systems, Steve Allen, Behavioral Health Director, Health Systems, Dolly Matteucci, Superintendent/Chief Executive Officer, Oregon State Hospital, Derek Wehr, Deputy Superintendent, Oregon State Hospital From: Patrick Allen, Director, Oregon Health Authority Date: June 7, 2019 Subject: Directive to continue addressing […]
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