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Describing a friend in crisis who spent more than 40 hours without care in an emergency room waiting for an inpatient psychiatric bed to open, Jason Renaud, founder of the Mental Health Association of Portland, says the system has “lost trust.”

The House Health chairman has tried to revamp the CCOs before they get a new 5-year contract, arguing they need greater transparency and accountability. A year's delay would give the new administration more time to improve a system the public has had to support with more taxes.

That’s the topic being discussed at an April 28 breakfast forum sponsored by Oregon Health Forum and OSPIRG.

Oregon advocates, parents pushing for vaccine.