Psychiatric patient won’t move to hospice

Terminally ill man must remain in State Hospital By Alan Gustafson A state board ruled Wednesday that a terminally ill mental patient with AIDS will remain at the Oregon State Hospital and not be released to a community hospice care facility. The state Psychiatric Security Review Board concluded that the ailing patient, Robert Anderson, can [...]

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Addiction-treatment home lets women keep their children

A place to stay a mom The youngest resident of Her Place, a Marion County transitional home for women in drug and alcohol treatment, happened to be the born on the day the new house’s inhabitants moved in. “I was so thankful that they’d let me keep her,” said mother Reyna Belmont, 28, as she [...]

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Advocates want investigation into state hospital patient’s death

By Michelle Cole, The Oregonian SALEM — A 42-year-old patient at the Oregon State Hospital was found dead in his bed Saturday night, prompting mental health advocates to call for an investigation amid reports that the man was dead for several hours before staff noticed. A hospital official confirmed that a patient on 50F, a [...]

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State patient who pushed for release hospitalized

Robert Anderson, who has AIDS, moved from OSH to Salem Hospital By Alan Gustafson A state hospital mental patient asking to be released from the psychiatric facility because he has AIDS now is in the intensive care unit at Salem Hospital. Robert Anderson said Thursday from Salem Hospital that he has been diagnosed with pneumonia [...]

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Reading Your Way To Mental Health

By KEVIN HELLIKER The Wall Street Journal A growing number of therapists are recommending something surprising for depressed and anxious patients: Read a book. The treatment is called bibliotherapy, and it is gaining force from a spate of research showing that some self-help books can measurably improve mental health. In May alone, the journal Behaviour [...]

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Move to relax watch on killer terrifies family’s survivors

Move to relax watch on killer terrifies family’s survivors State hospital – Officials ask to send a convicted murderer to a small Pendleton facility Tyler Smith still is haunted by the day 10 years ago when his uncle stabbed him five times during a rampage through his grandfather’s home in Beavercreek. Smith, now 24, cringes [...]

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