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Hospital Closing Would Accelerate State’s Direction on Mental Health

It’s unclear if the Legislature will actually approve the closure of the Junction City as the same forces that won $130 million to build it over the concerns of the mental health community will fight to save it. But it’s possible it could be used as a prison hospital while patients are treated in the community with funding from Medicaid through CCOs.
Dec 8, 2016
Delayed workplace investigations at the Oregon Health Authority have been a source of stress for employees who may continue to face harassment. A woman who worked at the Oregon State Hospital waited three years for investigation into sexual harassment she faced from a male coworkers. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Oregon Health Authority workplace investigations took years

Equity unit delays violated state standards and sparked concerns over liability and safety, but agency officials say new systems are being put into place to ensure timeliness.
Aug 20, 2024

Bill Restores Medicaid for State Hospital Patients and Prisoners Upon Release

SB 233 helps close a gap in health benefits when former prison inmates and state hospital patients return to society by asking the state to suspend rather than terminate Medicaid while such people are living in state institutions. It also ensures that prisons as well as jails save on hospital costs for inmates.
Apr 30, 2015

OHSU and Salem Hospital Lead State in Infection Rates

October 3, 2013 -- Oregon Health & Science University and Salem Hospital lead major Oregon hospitals in hospital-acquired infections of a bacterium that’s come to plague American hospitals — Clostridium difficile, often abbreviated as C. diff.
Sep 30, 2013

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