From an office at Oregon Health & Science University named Mission Control, a team has sought to fashion a nervous system linking hundreds of mental health and addiction treatment providers across the state.
Few doubt the concept is worthy: A registry tracking real-time bed capacity data in behavioral health facilities around Oregon should make it easier to get acutely ill patients the care they need—and identify choke points in the system.
And yet, millions of public dollars in, the Oregon Behavioral Health Coordination Center has, judging by its own numbers, coordinated very little actual behavioral health care at all…