While your child is with Oregon Youth Authority, we provide them with the treatment, medical care, and mental health care they need.
Eastern has a clinic with nurses, a nurse practitioner, qualified mental health professionals, and access to psychiatric nurses and a dentist. We also have contracts with health care providers in the community for services we are unable to provide in our clinic.
Our facility only provides medical services that are medically necessary.
Payment for Medical Services
OYA pays for all necessary medical services for all youth in our correctional facilities. Youth are not eligible to receive Oregon Health Plan benefits while they are in OYA facilities.
Learn more about paying for medical services
Private Health Insurance
If you already have private health insurance for your youth, you should keep it, and let MacLaren know about it.
If your youth needs emergency or specialty care somewhere outside of our facilities, your insurance could help pay for this. It also could get you a deduction on our child support payments.
Receiving Medical Information About Your Child
OYA health services follows
HIPAA privacy guidelines. We are not allowed to release medical information about youth in our custody without a signed release.
- Youth who are 14 and younger must have a release of information signed by Eastern's superintendent.
- Youth who are 15 and older must sign a release of information form before we can share their medical information.
If you have questions or want updates about your youth’s medical information, please contact their living unit manager and they can help you.