The Oregonian, July 29, 2014 A group of public safety leaders from Multnomah County, including the chief criminal judge, Portland police chief and corrections supervisors, are heading to Bexar County, Texas, on Wednesday for an overnight trip to learn about a program that diverts people with mental illness from the county lockup. Bexar County officials […]
From the Oregonian, July 16, 2014 Emergency rooms flooded with people mentally ill or on drugs. A mental health program poorly managed. Agencies and health systems dumping people’s problems on each other to improve bottom lines. Oregon’s health reform law, approved with much fanfare and hope in 2012, was supposed to solve problems like these. Instead, […]
Mental Health and Addiction Services: Managing Risk in a Changing Environment READ – Mental Health and Addiction Services: Managing Risk in a Changing Environment Summary: [Multnomah County] Mental Health and Addictions Services Division (Division) operates a mental health insurance plan that covers approximately 90,000 Oregon Health Plan (OHP) members in Multnomah County. The Division faces […]
Eds. Note – Multnomah County and Healthshare Oregon have an acrimonious business relationship serving people with mental illness and addiction. In 2013 MultCo hired the Technical Assistance Collaborative to advise them about options for the future of managed care. Simply, the ACA privatizes public health, but private agencies may not be incentivized to care for […]
The Oregonian, March 7, 2014 A former Multnomah County compliance officer is alleging the county ignored improper medical billing by private healthcare providers that, she says, has cost local and federal taxpayers millions of dollars. Barbara Alexander-Brown filed her whistleblower lawsuit Friday morning in Multnomah County Circuit Court. READ – Complaint filed in Multnomah County […]
Multnomah County, Jan. 7, 2014 Federal budget cuts in Congress resulted in $1.2 million less per month to families getting badly needed food assistance in Multnomah County. Multnomah County commissioners heard a troubling briefing Tuesday about how federal budget cuts in Congress are forcing county residents to choose among the necessities of life for them […]
By Kelly House, The Oregonian, Oct. 31, 2013 In response to complaints that homeless people behave inappropriately at the county’s libraries, the Board of County Commissioners ordered the Library and the Department of County Human Services to study who uses the library, and what they do there. READ – Homelessness, Human Services and Libraries – Study […]
From the Portland Mercury, September 25, 2013 To get a sense of how things are going at the Bud Clark Commons Community Court, check out its chairs. Each Friday afternoon, the docket for the court lists dozens of transient offenders accused of minor, quality-of-life-type offenses—things like drinking in public, urinating in public, smoking pot in […]
Op Ed by Deborah Kafoury, Multnomah County Commissioner, published in Street Roots, September 23, 2013 Last week, a young, frightened woman phoned my Multnomah County office looking for help. She was a mother, with three children, who needed housing. The family had been doubling up with a relative, but now that relative was moving out […]
From The Oregonian, September 6, 2013 One swipe of the excavator bucket and there it was, a human skull. The construction crew digging a trench at the Oregon Zoo on Aug. 15 stopped what it was doing. Zoo officials notified the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. And in the weeks since, archaeologists have recovered the […]
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