Ponder v. Employment Department

At the times relevant to this petition, the Garlington Center was a nonprofit organization working under contract with Multnomah County to provide out-patient mental health services to chronically and severely mentally ill clients in Northeast Portland. The vast majority of Garlington’s clients have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Others have bipolar disorder or organic brain disease. Some patients were referred by the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB). Garlington’s psychiatric staff was responsible for the prescription and administration of medications, mostly anti-psychotics, to…