Beginning on Sunday, November 13, the Museum will start hosting a monthly Speaker Series to highlight topics ranging from the Hospital's history to emerging mental health research. These offerings will be a the Museum from [...]
This is an excerpt from the Oregon Teacher’s Monthly magazine published in May 1916 (volume 20, no. 9). Oregon Teacher’s Monthly featured articles written by teachers, students and administrators related to general interest topics and [...]
Read about how Oregon's Provisional Government provided mental health services in 1845 at the Oregon State Archives' online exhibit: Echoes of Oregon.
One of the most vocal proponents of women’s suffrage in Oregon was also the leading proponent of Eugenics legislation which would affect the lives of hundreds of patients at the Oregon State Hospital. Beginning in [...]
Source: A Survey of the State Mental Institutions of Oregon. Washington, D.C.: United States Public Health Service, 1940. […]
The Mid Columbia Home (aka Columbia Park Hospital and Training Center, Columbia Park Home) was Oregon’s first hospital devoted exclusively to chronically ill and geriatric patients.1 In 1959, the Oregon [...]
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 [...]
On January 26, 1913, 325 patients were transferred from the Oregon State Hospital in Salem to the newly built Eastern Oregon State Hospital in Pendleton. [1] The first impetus for the new hospital [...]
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance, a subset of the Treasury Department was created by an act of the federal legislature in 1914 to provide for Marine Insurance during WWI. [...]
On September 15, 1969, Dr. Dean K. Brooks, then superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, gave a speech before the Association of Medical Superintendents of Mental Hospitals at a meeting [...]
