From the Oregonian, May 29, 2014 Two-thirds of the patients admitted to the Oregon State Hospital last year were criminal defendants admitted under court orders, a legislative panel heard Thursday. Sixty percent of those patients faced felony charges, and the other 40 percent faced misdemeanors, said Greg Roberts, hospital superintendent. Patients facing relatively minor offenses […]
From The Oregonian, Jan. 3, 2013 An Oregon State Hospital patient was declared dead Friday after staff discovered him unresponsive during morning rounds at 8 a.m., a hospital spokeswoman confirmed. The patient’s sister identified him as Christopher Patrick Crawford, 48. He had been a patient at the State Hospital for about two decades, said the […]
Salem Statesman Journal, March 18, 2012 For decades, the Oregon State Hospital was mired in misery. Behind the Salem hospital’s crumbling facade, mentally ill Oregonians were packed into a bleak, antiquated and unsafe asylum. New state-of-the-art facilities are now in place, but opinions are divided when it comes to a key question: Are patients receiving […]
By Dan Tilkin, KATU.com, Feb. 10, 2012 After 18 months of care, Matthew Ingle, 21, had earned the privilege of taking a supervised walk outside the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. Doctors and therapists at the secure facility that treats the mentally ill thought Ingle was progressing well in his treatment for schizophrenia. On Sept. […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, September 18, 2011 A bill that modifies how mental patients with criminal pasts are released from the Oregon State Hospital has left confusion, bitterness and dueling state legal opinions in its wake, months after its passage by the 2011 Legislature. Senate Bill 420 cleared the Legislature after an intense lobbying […]
Our Two Cents – Perhaps the most positive and optimistic report in a long history of dour and dingy documents plopped out of the Oregon State Hospital this week – Excellent! All fixed. Turns out bricks and mortar, charming lists, graphics and more gobbledegook faux-business lingo evoke good psychiatric care. Everyone go home – watch […]
From OPB.org, May 27th 2011 LISTEN – The Doors of the Oregon State Hospital The patients in the state’s mental hospital have landed there for a variety of reasons. A little more than half are there because they were found guilty of a crime “except for insanity.” That puts them under the jurisdiction of the […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, January 21, 2011 A New Jersey physician has been hired to become the first chief of medicine at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. Dr. Brian Little comes to OSH from Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey. READ – DOJ CRIPA investigation of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, August 2009 READ – […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, November 14, 2010 State officials will gather in Salem on Thursday for a ceremony hailing the looming opening of a “world-class” psychiatric facility that will replace the aged and obsolete Oregon State Hospital. Officials tout a new era of progressive care —changes that could resolve a four-year federal investigation into […]
-By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner A striking transformation could be in store at the Oregon State Hospital, according to the facility’s new leadership team, Supervisor Greg Roberts, MSW, and Chief Medical Officer Mark Diamond, DO, who spoke about the future Thursday evening at Oregon Health & Science University. Roberts and Diamond weren’t talking […]
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