Morningside Hospital » 1970-1980s http://www.morningsidehospital.com In territorial days, Alaskans could be one of three places... Inside (in Alaska), Outside (anywhere else), or Morningside (Morningside Hospital). Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:42:46 +0000 en hourly 1 OSH Copper Canisters http://www.morningsidehospital.com/2011/02/osh-copper-canisters/ http://www.morningsidehospital.com/2011/02/osh-copper-canisters/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:56:45 +0000 Ellen http://www.morningsidehospital.com/?p=616 In an earlier post, I wrote about the copper canisters that hold the cremains of patients who died at the Oregon State Hospital.  The names of the patients, and other information such as date of death, are now online. The webpage, Honoring the Past – List of Unclaimed Cremains, explains that: “The Oregon State Hospital is the custodian of the cremated remains of approximately 3,500 people who died while living at Oregon State Hospital, Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital, Mid-Columbia Hospital, Dammasch State Hospital, Oregon State Penitentiary, and Fairview Training Center between 1914 and the 1970s. These cremains were never claimed.”

The site includes information on how to claim cremains if you can prove you are a relative. The 6 Alaskans who died there between 1900 and 1903 were not on the list. Thanks to Eric Cordingly of the Friends of Multnomah Park Cemetery for sharing this link.

]]> http://www.morningsidehospital.com/2011/02/osh-copper-canisters/feed/ 0 UAF Project Jukebox http://www.morningsidehospital.com/2009/05/uaf-project-jukebox/ http://www.morningsidehospital.com/2009/05/uaf-project-jukebox/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 23:26:04 +0000 Ellen http://www.morningsidehospital.com/?p=110 The University of Alaska Oral History Program is doing interviews with people involved in the closure of Morningside Hospital, the court battles that lead to the establishment of the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, and the development of  mental health, substance abuse, developmental disability and Alzheimer’s Disease services. The interviews, plus a lot more, can be found on their website. The following is from the UAF Jukebox site.

“The Mental Health Trust History Project Jukebox offers insight into the long struggle to provide quality mental health services in Alaska from the perspective of people who participated. There is discussion about how the mentally ill were treated prior to Statehood when they were sent to Morningside Hospital in Portland, Oregon; how in 1956 Alaska was given one million acres to manage in trust to fund mental health services; a 1982 lawsuit against the State for mismanagement of these lands and funds; the lengthy legal, political, and legislative effort to settle this lawsuit by re-constituting the lands, providing a cash settlement, and creating the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.

This project was started in 2007 by the Oral History Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks with funding from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority.”

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