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 the Salem Statesman Journal, February 27, 2011 State officials refuse to answer questions about two mental-health consultants who have been paid $1 million to help the Oregon State Hospital respond to an ongoing U.S. Department of Justice investigation of the Salem psychiatric facility. The taxpayer-subsidized tab for the consulting duo has nearly doubled since […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, January 22, 2011 Kaufman Global is not a household name in Oregon. But the Indiana-based consulting firm is well known to leaders of the state Department of Human Services. Since 2007, DHS has awarded Kaufman Global three contracts for consulting services, and the firm has played an influential role in […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, December 1, 2010 Indiana company is hired to help improve the culture of the psychiatric facility An Indiana consulting firm has started working at the Oregon State Hospital, launching a $1.99 million project to spur culture change and improvements at the long-troubled psychiatric facility in Salem. A team from Kaufman […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, October 8, 2010 Hospital has been criticized for poor turnaround efforts The state Department of Human Services plans to spend nearly $2 million to hire “change consultants” at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. The prospective consulting contract with an Indiana-based firm comes in the wake of a separate $175,000 […]
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