The shortage of beds at Oregon State Hospital reflects a national trend linked to staffing deficits that are cramping services in the public mental health system.
Oct 26, 2021
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An artist's depiction of a proposed psychiatric hospital proposed for a site in Wilsonville.
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UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES
But supporters say the facility would serve a need, even if it didn’t fix Oregon’s tangled and inadequate behavioral health care system.
Apr 27, 2021
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Universal Health Services, which owns Cedar Hills Hospital in Portland, wants to build another psychiatric facility in Wilsonville.
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COURTESY OF CEDAR HILLS HOSPITAL
Under Oregon’s certificate of need process, critics and supporters will likely put the 100-bed project in Wilsonville, first proposed in 2016, under a microscope.