The Register-Guard, April 21, 2015 Last month, Kim Gutierrez, a mother of three girls, moved out of a home she has rented for several years in a neighborhood she loved. “I no longer feel safe here,” Gutierrez said. “I hate to leave here, but that is it.” The source of her anxiety: the large single-family […]
The Lund Report, Oct. 9, 2014 The director for the state Addictions and Mental Health Division laid down a concrete proposal at Tuesday’s Oregon Health Policy Board meeting that could go a long way toward reforming the Oregon mental health system and freeing up capacity at the state mental hospital. Director Pam Martin wants the […]
Willamette Week, Sept. 28, 2014 The family of City Commissioner Amanda Fritz celebrated the life of Dr. Steven Fritz at a public memorial service at Terry Schrunk Plaza downtown [the evening of September 28]. All are invited to attend the 5 p.m. ceremony. Steven Fritz died Wednesday morning in a collision on Interstate 5 on […]
From Go Local PDX, September 09, 2014 Eds. Note – the URL to the Go Local PDX web site hosting the article below sets off security bells and whistles from Firefox and Chrome browsers. Proceed with caution. The number of criminal suspects in Oregon deemed unfit to stand trial and then sent to the state […]
Statesman Journal, July 19, 2014 “Down, down, sideways.” Guy Forson repeats the words over and over in a way that is almost soothing. Nick Stalheim uses a scalpel to follow Forson’s directions, cutting squares out of a flat piece of clay that he intends to make into a castle for his eventual fish tank. Stalheim’s […]
Willamette Week, July 16, 2014 Jennifer Ann has found herself in Portland emergency rooms more than two dozen times in the past 20 years—almost always for the same reason. “Usually I go,” she says, “because I feel I’m going to kill myself.” On good days, Jennifer Ann, 56, is a high-functioning mother of four. She’s […]
By William Hughes, Guest Column in The Oregonian, July 11, 2014 On July 4, I should have been celebrating. Instead, I was sitting, saddened and appalled, having just read an article in The Oregonian. It reported on newfound evidence of 1,500 citizens and wards of the state of Oregon who have become lost forever. Authorities […]
The Oregonian, July 3, 2014 For years, Oregon officials assumed that some of the thousands of unclaimed urns at the Oregon State Hospital belonged to patients who were buried in a hospital cemetery, exhumed in 1913 and 1914, then cremated. Now, officials said this week, researchers don’t think any of the urns are linked to the […]
The Oregonian, June 12, 2014 An Oregon State Hospital patient who died in January likely suffered fatal heart arrhythmia due to hypertension, the state medical examiner’s office determined. Christopher Patrick Crawford, 48, was found unresponsive at the hospital during 8 a.m. rounds Jan. 3. Other heart conditions, including microscopic abnormalities with scarring, contributed to Crawford’s […]
From the Lund Report, June 12, 2014 Despite the U.S. Justice Department investigation into Oregon’s mental health system, Gov. [John] Kitzhaber has let a board go unfilled that’s meant to ensure patient safety and care at the state mental hospital. Advisory board members report long lines to get appointed and mishandled applications. An oversight board […]
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