Comments on: Healthy debate, part II http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/05/30/healthy-debate-part-ii/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SallyT http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/05/30/healthy-debate-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1994 SallyT Thu, 31 May 2007 03:37:59 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/05/30/healthy-debate-part-ii/#comment-1994 I have no doubt that the article reference by Joe (written in early 2005) made some kind of forward movement possible regarding mental health care in Oregon. However.....here it is almost halfway through 2007 and approval for construction sites of a new State Hospital have not even happened yet! According to the Phase III site recommendations report ( http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/osh/site-recommend/main.shtml ), construction will not even begin on the first of two sites until 2009! And that is all contingent on site approval, which appears to hinge once again on political power plays and funding. It's almost enough to make me ashamed to call myself an Oregonian. I have no doubt that the article reference by Joe (written in early 2005) made some kind of forward movement possible regarding mental health care in Oregon. However…..here it is almost halfway through 2007 and approval for construction sites of a new State Hospital have not even happened yet! According to the Phase III site recommendations report ( http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/osh/site-recommend/main.shtml ), construction will not even begin on the first of two sites until 2009! And that is all contingent on site approval, which appears to hinge once again on political power plays and funding.

It’s almost enough to make me ashamed to call myself an Oregonian.

]]> By: Joe http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/05/30/healthy-debate-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1993 Joe Wed, 30 May 2007 15:17:53 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/05/30/healthy-debate-part-ii/#comment-1993 The Oregonian's Pulitzer Prize winning series on the Oregon State Hospital, http://www.oregonlive.com/special/oregonian/hospital/ The Oregonian’s Pulitzer Prize winning series on the Oregon State Hospital,
http://www.oregonlive.com/special/oregonian/hospital/

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