Topic: Oregon State Hospital

For three decades, the cremated remains of thousands of patients sat hidden away dusty and forgotten in an outbuilding at Oregon State Hospital.....

Oregon looks for relatives of "Room of Forgotten Souls"

PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) - The state of Oregon is looking for relatives of Burl Cain, whose cremated remains have been sitting on a shelf in a dusty, neglected outbuilding of the Oregon State Hospital for more than six decades.Cain, who was born ...
Oregon mental hospital, set of 'Cuckoo's Nest,' reopening and looking past legacy of abusesThe crumbling Oregon State Hospital had toxic paint, asbestos and a leaky roof — an enduring symbol of the psychiatric neglect portrayed in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's ...

"Cuckoo's Nest" hospital rebuilt following abuses

0 . Oregon's state mental hospital gained attention as the filming site for a movie about psychiatric abuses - "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" - ...
Fairview opens December 1st, 1908 and closes February 17, 2000 A former patient explains: The institution received 39 patients with an annual cost of $40 from the oldest insane asylum on the West Coast, the Oregon State Hospital, which opened in 1883 ...
Mentally ill and locked away for a long timeSome examples The Associated Press found of patients at psychiatric hospitals being held in seclusion for months or years at a time: Cesar Chumil, 58, has lived in a three-room suite at Western State ...

No more 'Cuckoo's Nest' tours in Oregon

Tourists cuckoo for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' but Oregon says no more toursTourists interested in exploring the mental hospital made famous in " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" will have to settle for a virtual visit.Public interest in visiting the 125-year-old ...

Splashed ashes

This copper canister is sitting on a shelf in a storage room of the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, along with more than 3000 others. But due to medical privacy laws, this is a secret that only a handful of people - mainly ...
This copper canister is sitting on a shelf in a storage room of the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, along with more than 3000 others. But due to medical privacy laws, this is a secret that only a handful of people - mainly ...
This copper canister is sitting on a shelf in a storage room of the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, along with more than 3000 others. But due to medical privacy laws, this is a secret that only a handful of people - mainly ...