Health

Adventist Hospital Opens New Portland Psychiatric Center

By Kristian Foden-Vencil (OPB)
Portland, Oregon June 6, 2017 4:45 p.m.

Earlier this year, hospital groups around Portland got together to open the Unity Center For Behavioral Health.

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The idea was to give people in the middle of an emotional crisis somewhere to go.

It’s a facility that police had been requesting for years. They used to take people in crisis to hospital emergency rooms, which was not a good fit.

Dr. Y. Pritham Raj with Adventist’s new Emotional Wellness Center says Unity only looks after patients for a few days and many people need more help.

“So imagine somebody goes to Unity three to five days and they come out, if they enter our program for the next four to six weeks, then that is more of a transition and giving them the real skill set they need to recover,” he said.

Patients need some form of health insurance to be admitted.

Experts say about one in five Oregonians suffer some form of mental illness.

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