Portland’s city attorney sent PeaceHealth a letter demanding that the Vancouver-based health care system stop dropping off patients at Portland shelters without making prior arrangements.

The letter states that on Sept. 2 “PeaceHealth’s Fishers Landing Clinic discharged a homeless 70-year-old wheelcair user, placed her in a cab, and sent her to downtown Portland. She arrived at an overnight shelter nearly eight hours before the shelter’s scheduled opening. In those hours before staff could assist her, she sat alone and vulnerable on a Portland street, in nearly 90-degree heat.”

Portland City Attorney Robert Taylor sent the letter on Sept. 10 to Elizabeth Dunne, PeaceHealth’s president and CEO. An article published Oct. 21 by the Portland-based newspaper Willamette Week brought the lette

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