From the Salem Statesman Journal, May 23 2009 New psychiatric facility alone can’t fix Oregon’s mental health system, advocates say Construction will get under way next month on the first phase of a $280 million psychiatric hospital to replace the obsolete and unsafe Oregon State Hospital. But mental health advocates warn that it won’t cure […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, April 10 2009 Writer of controversial report secures five-month consultant contract in eastern Europe The author of a critical report about the Oregon State Hospital said Friday that he plans to step down from his latest state-paid consulting job to take new work in eastern Europe. Thursday will be the […]
From the Associated Press, March 20 2009 Following sharp criticism that included a tough report from the U.S. Justice Department, Oregon leaders have been planning to add employees, open a modern institution and close the existing Oregon State Hospital. Then along came the big recession and the state budget hole. The crowded, understaffed hospital has […]
Editorial from the Oregonian, September 3 2008 It was, Sen. Peter Courtney said Wednesday, “the room of lost souls,” the cremains of more than 3,500 people stacked in dented copper cans in an outbuilding, that galvanized Oregon to finally move to replace the decrepit Oregon State Hospital and improve the state’s system of mental health. […]
From The Oregonian, November 25, 2007 – not available elsewhere online Oregon lawmakers said Monday that they’re determined to fix problems with the state’s oversight of psychiatric medications given to children in foster care. Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said the Legislature will hold hearings when lawmakers reconvene in February to examine how well […]
From the New York Times, March 14, 2005. Next to the old mortuary, where the dead were once washed and prepared for burial or cremation, is a locked room without a name. Inside the room, in a dim and dusty corner of one of many abandoned buildings on the decaying campus of the Oregon State […]
From the Oregonian, October 28, 2004 Archived at The Carter Center The Oregon State Hospital has agreed to pay $200,000 to the family of a patient who died in 2001 when a group of hospital workers tackled him after a disagreement over soda pop, then tied him to a restraint bed while he was unconscious. […]
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