Statement from Tina Edlund, acting director of the Oregon Health Authority, in response to the USDOJ Interim Report to the State of Oregon, January 2014 READ – statement by Edlund as prepared for The Oregonianstatement by DOJ on failures of OHA READ – statement by DOJ on failures of OHA The interim report includes USDOJ’s […]
The Oregonian, Jan. 24, 2014 A U.S. Justice Department investigator Friday, in a letter to a supervisor, outlined the steps that Oregon mental health care officials have promised to take in response to a federal report this month criticizing Oregon’s community-based mental health care system. READ – Judy Preston’s letter to supervisor John Dunbar, DOJ, […]
From KATU.com, Jan. 10, 2014 As the state launches a new independent investigation into the failure of the Cover Oregon website, keep one thing in mind. It’s been done before. Exhaustively. KATU’s Investigators spent weeks digging through thousands of pages of audits conducted by Maximus, the company the state hired to provide quality-control assessments of […]
By Christopher David Gray, The Lund Report, Oct. 3, 2013 Before adjourning yesterday, legislators created a dedicated funding stream for mental health services, bringing in nearly $150 million over five years through a small increase in the cigarette tax. Cigarettes will go up 13¢ a pack in 2014 and an additional penny in 2016 and […]
By Nigel Duara, The Associated Press, on WSB-TV2 Atlanta, Sept. 28, 2013 Six months ago, Ashley Slocki was on her husband’s employer-provided health insurance, and it came with dental, vision and low prescription co-pays. Slocki, now 27 and divorced, opened her mail one day in July to learn her so-called Cadillac plan was going away. […]
From The Lund Report, September 19, 2013 Rep. Bob Jenson of Pendleton told The Lund Report he’s hoping to find a way to delay the closure of Eastern Oregon’s state mental hospital before its doctors and nurses leave for work elsewhere. Rep. Jennifer Williamson of Portland suggested converting it into a much-needed prison hospital for […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, September 4, 2013 When the Klamath County commissioners decided to transfer the mental health department to a nonprofit, they did it because the county was no longer financially able to provide the service. But an equally important question needed to be asked: will Klamath Youth Development Center do a […]
From the Klamath Herald and News, September 1, 2013 Though from the outside the process seemed sudden, boiling into a difficult situation within weeks, the county commissioners had an inkling of the direction they were headed before they sent a letter to the Oregon Health Authority on June 14 saying the county wanted out of […]
By Harry Esteve, The Oregonian, August 14, 2013 With little fanfare, the Oregon Lottery is getting out of the business of guiding problem gamblers to services that can help them. The lottery has pulled an award-winning ad that urges problem gamblers to seek help, it has dropped its membership in the Oregon Council on Problem […]
From the Klamath Falls Herald Tribune, June 26, 2013 Klamath County commissioners approved executing a contract Tuesday with the Oregon Health Authority as a bridge toward ousting itself from providing mental health care and putting that task in the hands of a nonprofit. On June 14, the commissioners sent a letter to the state saying […]
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