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Old 07-13-2020, 01:33 AM   #169 (permalink)
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IIRC there's nothing in The Constitution about political parties. I 'like' 3rd parties, currently the Birthday party, not the Libertarians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_Hospital#2009—present:_Reconstruction
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Amidst the public and federal criticisms against the hospital,[51] the board and trustees put forth a $458 million plan approved by the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 2007, which called for the construction of a replacement hospital in Salem with as many as 620 beds, as well as a 360-bed facility in Junction City.[47] Portions of the dilapidated, 125-year-old main Kirkbride building were torn down and replaced beginning in September 2008.[52] The same year, the entire hospital campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[52] Construction of the new Salem facility began in 2009, and was completed around 2011; with the Junction City facility being completed in 2013.[47] Salem mayor Janet Taylor has called for the number of beds to be reduced to 320 or fewer, and another hospital facility to be built in or near Portland.[48]
Under See Also we learn there was an asylum in Portland that preceded the actaul Cuckoo's Nest.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Hospital_for_the_Insane
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J.C. Hawthorne died in February 1881 leaving ownership of the hospital in the hands of his wife. Dr. Simeon Josephi took over the operation of the hospital from the time of Hawthorne's death until the completion of the Oregon State Insane Asylum in Salem. Control of the patients at the Portland hospital were transferred to state officials in October 1883, with the 268 male and 102 female patients then housed at the facility transported by rail aboard a special O&C train from Portland to Salem on October 23, 1883.[23]

Hawthorne's hospital is remembered as one of the most progressive American mental health facilities of its era.[24] The hospital was marked by empathetic medical treatment and concern for the health and well being of patients by allowing them to work in the fresh air, raising vegetables and livestock, thereby helping them to maintain a sense of purpose.[24]

The bodies of destitute patients of Oregon Hospital for the Insane were interred at Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland, the final costs of which were borne by J.C. Hawthorne out of pocket.[24]
Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962, the movie was filmed [in the Kirkbride building] in 1975.


President Carter passed the [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/]Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980 and it was repealed by President Reagan thirty days later.

I visited the State Hospital in the 1970s. The couples lounging on the lawn were the least harried people I saw that day.
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