By Amanda Waldroupe, for The Lund Report, March 8, 2012 Services are largely preserved, but four wards at the new Oregon State Hospital won’t open until at least 2013 The state’s rebalanced budget, one of the last bills the Legislature passed before adjourning Monday evening, largely spares the Oregon Health Authority from deep cuts. Out […]
By Amanda Waldroupe, for Street Roots, March 6, 2012 A patient’s housing and sociological condition can have a direct affect on his or her health care, but a bill in Salem to incorporate those providers into the new health care reform failed to make the books. As a result, the legislature has left unanswered a […]
By Mary Monnat, Guest Columnist for The Oregonian, Saturday, February 18, 2012 An orthopedic surgeon, a consumer of mental health services, a dentist and an addiction counselor are sitting at a table … talking. No, this is not the windup to a joke. Far from it. This is a serious conversation and one of hundreds […]
By Bill Graves, The Oregonian, Saturday, February 04, 2012 A barefoot Joyce Jones, 30, creeps like an old woman into the living room of her grandmother’s apartment, settles into an easy chair and talks to the person trying to keep her out of the hospital. “I was in the ER last night,” Jones says weakly. […]
On July 28th, 13 people who called themselves Peers, Consumers, or Survivors met at Mental Health America of Oregon to hold the first Tri-County meeting in twenty years (see ‘New Tri-County Metro-Area Consumer/Survivor Council Holds First Meeting on July 28’ for a little more background). We got to know each other a little, discussed some […]
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