From The Portland Business Journal, September 16, 2001 The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was full. The closure of […]
From the Portland Business Journal, September 14, 2001. Not available elsewhere online. The Crisis Triage Center was the centralized care center for Multnomah County mentally ill needing urgent care. The center served more than 8,700 people in the last fiscal year and still it turned away another 400 patients in emergency vehicles because it was […]
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 […]
From The Oregonian, August 10, 2001 The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved the first phase of the county’s long-awaited mental health redesign. Commissioners also approved a budget outline for the acute-care plan but postponed until next month more specific — and potentially wrenching — decisions about how to pay for it. […]
From The Oregonian, May 16, 2001 This week, Multnomah County officials are getting their first look at a controversial plan to revamp the county’s beleaguered mental health care system. The draft proposal is aimed at preventing what its authors call a “train wreck” in acute mental health care. It recommends, in effect, a county-run managed […]
From The Oregonian, March 29, 2001 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. I SAMUEL 16:23 Jennie Easly was a young mother, just 23, […]
From the Oregonian, June 24, 2000 In Hollywood, it pays to be mentally ill. The film “Me, Myself and Irene,” in which Jim Carrey portrays a schizophrenic cop with multiple personalities and an obsession for a girl named Irene, is expected to be the summer’s blockbuster comedy. It opens today. But not everyone is laughing. […]
One Dollar Magazine, 1976 by Mark Christensen What To Do About Those Burnside Bums – if they won’t go away? (PDF) Good snapshot of the clinical and economic drivers of homelessness and chronic illness – alcoholism and mental illness – pervasive in Portland’s inner city in the 1960s – 1970s. Mark Christensen shook Portland off […]
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