Oregon settles interim deal with advocates, agrees to hire an independent expert on hospital admissions
Under the interim agreement, OHA would hire the expert, who was to deliver short-term recommendations by January 31, 2022 and a long-term compliance plan by April 29, 2022, with a settlement conference set for May 4, 2022. The Metropolitan Public Defender and Disability Rights Oregon agreed to hold off on contempt proceedings and requests for injunctive relief while that work went on, unless OHA stopped acting in good faith. Disputes in the interim would go first to mediation.
The agreement covered both aid-and-assist commitments and the separate guilty-except-for-insanity case known as Bowman.
The expert, Dr. Debra Pinals, would go on to produce the reports that shaped the 2022 order limiting hospital stays.
Source: Oregon Reaches Interim Settlement with Metropolitan Public Defender and Disability Rights Oregon Regarding Admissions to the Oregon State Hospital — Disability Rights Oregon (OHA release), by Oregon Health Authority and Disability Rights Oregon
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