By Sergio Cisneros, OPB News, June 19, 2013 Klamath County has notified the Oregon Health Authority it can no longer fund mental health care services in the area. The county is asking the state to provide these services, or to explore other alternatives like setting up nonprofits. Dennis Linthicum is with the Klamath County Board of Commissioners. […]
By Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, June 4, 2013 Every year about this time, Dr. Karen Gunson, the Oregon state medical examiner, and her colleagues tally up drug-related deaths in the state. And each year, Gunson sees trends in the numbers. For 2012, Gunson said, she saw that the ages of victims of heroin overdoses were […]
By Kristian Foden-Vencil, KERA News, April 26, 2013 There are hundreds, if not thousands, of ways to track the health of a population: the average blood pressure, the rate of mental illness and the average weight. Epidemiologists have been collecting these data for years, but now, in Oregon, there is cold, hard cash riding on […]
By Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian, March 25, 2013 A month after calling for a “game-changing” investment in mental health, Senate President Peter Courtney has introduced a bill detailing a comprehensive network of new mental health programs and services for children, young adults, families and schools. It would take $333 million over the next two years […]
By Erin Fenner, Willamette Week, March 6, 2013 Dr. Gary Oxman spent his career trying to save people who don’t care whether they live or die. Oxman—who just retired as health officer for Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties—has long wanted to do more to rescue drug users. He was one of the earliest supporters in […]
PolitiFact Oregon, Feb. 16, 2013 Peter Courtney on Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 in a press release says, “Statistics indicate that one in eight children, and one in 18 adults in Oregon suffers from mental illness.” Do one in eight Oregon children and one in 18 adults suffer from mental illness? Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, […]
From The Washington Post, Jan. 18, 2013 In 2011, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber faced a vexing problem: The state had a $2 billion hole in its Medicaid budget and no good way to fill it. He could cut doctors’ pay by 40 percent, but that might lead to them quitting Medicaid altogether. He could drop […]
By Andrea Damewood, Willamette Week, Jan. 16, 2013 The road for the Oregon State Hospital in Junction City stretches across an open field, waiting to lead people to the state’s newest mental health facility. State officials have spent $61.8 million preparing the land in the Lane County town 15 miles northwest of Eugene. New water […]
State officials are taking public input about how Oregon Health Plan reforms are going, including written, Internet and in-person testimony, culminating in a Dec. 11 public meeting. Starting in August, the Oregon Health Authority that oversees the state’s low-income health care system has shifted members into coordinated care organizations, essentially locally based health plans set […]
By Diane Lund-Muzikant, The Lund Report, Dec. 5, 2012 A last-ditch effort is under way in Klamath County to mediate the dispute over mental health services for the nearly 13,000 people on the Oregon Health Plan. State officials have intervened once again, sending in another mediator, while residents continue circulating petitions, asking the Oregon Health […]
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