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State Hospital making new changes after yet more problems found

Six months after a controversial patient death at the state’s main psychiatric institution, an unannounced federal inspection in September called on the Oregon Health Authority to make changes to how patients are restrained and placed in seclusion
November 18, 2025
 
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, on Nov. 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Yet another federal inspection of the state’s largest psychiatric institution, the Oregon State Hospital, has found dangers to patient sa