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Oregon Health AuthorityFour of Oregon’s largest hospital systems announced on Thursday they have appealed a federal court ruling that dismissed their lawsuit alleging the state violates the civil rights of Oregonians with mental illnesses by giving them inadequate care. -
Courtesy of Emerson FamilyAn Oregon judge says an ex-Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight can be released from jail pending trial.
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Federal Aviation Administration has strict policies that discourage pilots from disclosing mental health issues, aviation experts say. -
California collects a special tax on high incomes to fund mental health services. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change how the money is spent so a share of it can be used to fund housing for homeless people with mental illnesses.
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Escaped Oregon State Hospital patient Christopher Pray is back in police custody after a madcap 36 hours that began with stealing a van while in shackles and ended with firefighters tugging him out of a muddy pond with a rope.
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A handcuffed and shackled Oregon State Hospital patient with pending felony charges stole a van and escaped from the state-run psychiatric hospital in Salem late Wednesday night, commandeering it southbound on Interstate 5.
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Mental health care is severely lacking in Humboldt County, which has only one inpatient psychiatric hospital. The rural area has been impacted by compounding factors, like the opioid epidemic and COVID, and lacks funding for behavioral health treatment services.
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The largest survey of homeless Californians in decades aims to dispel myths about what drives that state’s most pressing crisis. It found that addiction and mental health conditions rarely cause homelessness.
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The rural Northern California community has its sights set on a new emergency mental health care facility to fill chronic gaps in resources.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to shift more money to housing severely mentally ill homeless people. Some officials at mental health organizations fear that funding will come from cuts to other services they provide.
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Democratic leaders in California and Oregon are becoming more open to using involuntary psychiatric commitment to combat homelessness, drug abuse and untreated mental illness.
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Oregon's system for people with profound mental illness is broken. We examine two major problems and two promising strategies.
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Klamath County’s behavioral health program is expanding with a grant from the Oregon Health Authority. The expansion will include a new 24/7 crisis care center.
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Newly acquired state data shows that the Corrections Department transferred patients with serious mental illnesses an average of five times over a six-year period, underscoring a CalMatters’ investigation this year that revealed the practice and raised questions about the harm it could cause.
