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Suit challenges new Oregon behavioral health siting law

Neighboring landowners hope to block PeaceHealth’s behavioral health hospital and a Lane County mental health crisis center
October 14, 2025
 
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An artist's rendering of a proposed behavioral health hospital planned by PeaceHealth and LifePoint for Springfield. | COURTESY PEACEHEALTH

Property owners have sued to block construction of a $35 million Lane County mental health crisis center as well as a 96-bed