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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Heidi Hagemeier / The Bulletin
January 24, 2013
Until recently, the staff at Deschutes County's Behavioral Health Annex were grieving all too often for people gone too soon.
The severely mentally ill county residents who receive services at the Annex were dying at the rate of nearly one per month. Nationally, life expectancy is roughly 25....