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Oregon hospital seeks more capacity in painstaking approval process
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32745
Subject(s) - certificate , state (computer science) , process (computing) , psychiatric hospital , state hospital , business , medical emergency , medicine , operations management , geography , psychiatry , engineering , computer science , algorithm , operating system
In a state that consistently ranks near the bottom nationally in inpatient psychiatric capacity and is now facing heightened demand for services, one might expect that a proposal for a new psychiatric hospital facility would sail through the approval process. Yet that by no means characterizes Cedar Hills Hospital's second attempt in four years to obtain a Certificate of Need (CON) from Oregon officials.