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Multnomah County released a May 2 draft of the Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare “Preliminary Forensic Accounting Diagnosis” yesterday afternoon. It was posted deep in the Oregonian web site at 7:15 PM. DOWNLOAD – Preliminary Forensic Accounting Diagnosis – PDF 3 MB Though a draft, as the first independent review of Cascadia as a business, it is […]
In the mid-1980s the most dire problem on the streets of Portland (from the point of view of the downtown business community which funded the campaigns of elected persons at city hall and at the county commission) was public inebriates. These were mostly white working class male late-stage inebriates who lived in dozens of cheap […]
First, some recent context! New, and sad -> Email from Derald Walker, CEO of Cascadia to all staff, June 5 2008 – Subject: Status Update From the Portland Mercury, May 30, 2008 – County Fucks Up Mental Health, Asks People With Mental Illness, “How Does it Feeeeel?” Email from Mary Monnat, CEO of LifeWorks to […]
From the Portland Mercury, May 22, 2008 That was mental health advocate Marian Drake, addressing County Chair Ted Wheeler yesterday afternoon during a two-hour meeting to talk about the financial collapse of the county’s giant mental health-care provider, Cascadia. WHEELER: Met with mental health advocates yesterday… Since the financial problems hit, many of Cascadia’s clients […]
By Peter Davidson, MD. – about 2001 Introduction The increasing cost of psychoactive drugs is threatening any program at risk for these drugs and the OHP is no exception. Program managers everywhere are hoping to adopt ethical strategies for managing the costs of psychoactive drugs. This can be done through improvements in both access to […]
From the Oregonian, October 5, 1909 Excerpt text from longer article listing Multnomah County accounts. On the other hand, the County Poor-farm and Hillside Farm receipts have dwindled from $2589.07 in 1902 to $517.75 last year. The expenditures of the Hillside Farm last year, which included those of the County Hospital, were $30305.29. In 1902 […]
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