text: My comment is hardly misleading.  The community based, 16 bed residential facilities had a net cost (after federal reimbursement) of about 35K/patient.  The DHS admitted that the institutional cost is $280K/bed.  That's a eight to one cost savings.  Furthermore, the latest survey of the population at the Salem, Portland and Eastern Oregon facilities showed that 40% of the forensic patients had not committed Measure 11 offenses. i.e. were not so dangerous that they could not be considered for those less secure settings.  A reference to 60 bed facilities is a reference to an institutional setting....an entirely different thing than 16 bed community sites.