In 1999, in the wake of the shuttering of Garlington Center, several public deaths of people with mental illness, and a distressing countywide site review by the state mental health division, a wide-open, concerted, public conversation about Portland’s mental health system was launched by County Chair Beverly Stein. The conversation became more complex as the […]
From the Portland Tribune, November 1, 2006. Late Wednesday afternoon, Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk released a scathing report finding that the county has “some of the most expensive jails of any urban area in the nation,” citing a variety of mismanagement including “rampant” sick-time abuse at the jail system overseen by elected county […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, December 14, 2003. Not available elsewhere online. The Multnomah County crisis line (503-988-4888) dispatched the county’s mobile crisis unit, Project Respond of Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, to one of about 150 calls for mental -health assistance it receives weekly from the public and police. Julie Larson of […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, May 6, 2003. Not available elsewhere online. Any darn-fool manager can make an agency look good when taxes flood in like high tide at full moon. When the tax tide ebbs, though, it takes brains, skill and grit to perform like a star. As one who […]
From The Oregonian – February 22, 2003, no longer online Multnomah County notified the Oregon Department of Human Services on Friday that it is terminating its mental health outpatient contract under the Oregon Health Plan because of drastically cut state money. The decision could mean the end of county-provided help to about 10,000 indigent adults […]
From the Willamette Week, May 15, 2002 It’s loud. It’s messy. It’s nasty. But psychiatrist Peter Davidson is determined to rescue Portland’s mentally ill–whether they like it or not. There’s something about Dr. Peter Davidson that drives certain people–well, crazy. Most won’t say so in public. In public, they are unfailingly respectful to the maverick […]
By Don Colburn, The Oregonian, April 14, 2002 The man in navy sweats and white sneakers perches on his motorized cart, listening hard. His left hand — the one that works — clutches a copy of an agenda he cannot read. “Yeah! Yeah!” he bellows from the back of the room when anyone says something […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The area’s mental health care system is in a state of disrepair, but county officials have created a stop-gap plan Anyone involved in the local mental health system as a client, provider, administrator or family member has been familiar with the litany of faults and failures of […]
From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 When the state pulled the operating license for Pacific Gateway hospital after the death of a Mexican national this spring, the county was left without a secure evaluation and holding facility, according to Diane Linn, Multnomah County chair. And while other hospitals have designated psychiatric beds, there […]
From the Portland Business Journal, September 14, 2001. Not available elsewhere online. When the state pulled the operating license for Pacific Gateway hospital after the death of a Mexican national this spring, the county was left without a secure evaluation and holding facility, according to Diane Linn, Multnomah County chair. And while other hospitals have […]
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