In 1972, 51 Oregon State Hospital patients and 51 Oregon State Hospital staff spent 16 days on a wilderness trip in Eastern Oregon. It was an experimental, and perhaps radical, program designed to radically change the [...]
The following is an obituary published in a Salem paper June 15, 1930. Dr. Lewis Frank Griffith, then Assistant Superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, died June 14. Served faithfully at State institution 39 Years; [...]
. . . The following is an interview with Dr. Simeon Edward Joesphi, physician (1877-1881) and superintendent (1881-1883) at the Oregon Hospital for the Insane and one time superintendent of the [...]
The following is a transcription of an article that appeared in the Capital Journal newspaper September 20, 1951 (page 15). Prior to the introduction of specially designated substance abuse recovery and treatment centers, OSH was one of the few [...]
The following report was printed in the Salem-based Capital Journal newspaper April 6, 1897. The author is particularly impressed by the productiveness of the Asylum Farms in the winter months. Spelling is kept intact. Asylum [...]
I had the opporunity to tour the new Harbors Facility at OSH last week. For someone who spends a lot of time dwelling in OSH's past, touring the new, clean and spacious facility was an [...]
The following two accounts of the transfer of patients from the Oregon Hopsital for the Insane in East Portland to the newly built Oregon State Insane Asylum (OSIA) in Salem appeared in the Oregonian October [...]
The following are excerpts from an article appearing in the Oregon Statesman on Sunday July 12, 1964. The Junior Volunteer Program was started at the Oregon State Hospital as a service program for high-school aged youths. By 1968, the program had [...]
The following announcement was published in the Oregon Statesman Newspaper on August 26, 1894. Prior to the passage of Federal laws regarding patient privacy, it was not uncommon for commitments to OSH (then the Oregon State [...]
Test Lens Set, Oregon State HospitalThe following update on the changes in optometric care for patients at the Oregon State Hospital was reported to the Oregon Legislature in the Biennial Report of the Oregon State [...]