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June 20, 2013—The Oregon Patient Safety Commission has quickly learned that the process to create a new, voluntary program designed to reform medical malpractice will be a marathon, not a sprint.

Lawmakers want the state’s post-pandemic health care reset to include a new plan for the working poor — including 55,000 people about to be kicked off the Oregon Health Plan.

May 21, 2009 -- The fastest way to get up to speed on how Oregon spends its mental health dollar is to cruise the executive summary of the December 2008 report, Assessment and Evaluation of the Mental Health Care Delivery System in Oregon. This report was prepared at the request of the state legislature by the Public Consulting Group, a Boston-based management consulting firm.

This is the first of a four-part series on the problems facing children’s mental health care providers in Oregon.

Providers say the billing system is rigged against providing quality care.