Director Resigns at Oregon State Hospital

Stan Mazur-Hart is leaving after 12 years as the superintendent of Oregon State Hospital. State officials say Mazur-Hart’s departure, announced Monday and scheduled for Sept. 30, is unrelated to the recent escape of a patient and abuse allegations against a senior psychiatrist.

But a top Department of Human Services official said it is time for a change in the leadership of the hospital, which has campuses in Salem and Portland and is budgeted for nearly 700 patients. Reaction to his departure has been mixed. As seen in the report


Leanne Skinner, who has worked at the hospital 16 years, expressed mixed feelings. [...] Skinner, an occupational therapy assistant in the rehabilitation department, said Mazur-Hart’s departure took her by surprise.

“He’s just like one of those people we could complain about forever and nothing ever seemed to happen,” said Skinner, who was on the bargaining team for Local 503 of Service Employees International Union, representing about 40 percent of the state government work force.

It was unclear to Skinner exactly what led to his apparent ouster. “I don’t think it’s any one thing,” she said. “Maybe it’s a collection of things over time.”

“I am tickled pink that he’s leaving,” said Ray Bowser, a food service employee for eight years. “I don’t think he was fair to us. He never listened to us.”


So maybe he's leaving before everything blows up on him? Also see this report from ther Oregonian. Over all, not too many positive comments, and some reporters smell a scandal.