Facing a backlog of incoming patients, a federal judge ordered the state psychiatric hospital to set new deadlines for patient treatment lengths, based more on the severity of criminal charges against them than on their treatment progress
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The Oregon State Hospital is limiting treatment time on alleged criminals who need mental health care. The restrictions were put in place to ease the hospital’s overcrowding.