Salem adds space for court-ordered behavioral health treatment
For decades, Oregon’s overrun mental health system has put people with chronic and severe mental illnesses in endless cycles of emergency room visits, jail stints and unsheltered homelessness, with few escape routes.
On Thursday, health care providers joined state, county and local leadership to celebrate a new secure behavioral health treatment facility in Salem that they said will bring much-needed relief.
The Marion and Polk County Secure Residential Treatment Facility at 325 Lancaster Dr. S.E.…
