Nevada ships 1,500 mental patients out of state.

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San Francisco probes report Nevada dumped psychiatric patients

http://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-probes-report-nevada-dumped-psychiatric-patients-002040322.html


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco's city attorney said on Monday he has opened an investigation into recent newspaper reports that a Nevada mental hospital was illegally busing hundreds of newly discharged psychiatric patients to California and other states.

In a letter to the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, City Attorney Dennis Herrera cited a Sacramento Bee investigative series documenting what it described as rampant "patient dumping" by the Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas.

The Bee reported that the state-run facility has, since 2008, discharged some 1,500 patients - some of them still mentally ill and indigent - with one-way Greyhound bus tickets to out-of-state destinations without adequate provisions for food, medication, housing or medical treatment.

The report found that one third of those patients were sent to neighboring California, the bulk of them arriving in Los Angeles, while 36 ended up in San Francisco.

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1. Karma. CA dumped mental patients on the street during the Reagan era (as Governor)

by closing mental hospitals and turning to 'community' care. Right. Only there was no funding
for said community care.

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2. Las Vegas/clark county has a real

PR issue. If you follow Vegas news,it's all about protecting the image of the Casinos and be damn the public. When your local government is run by Teabillies,what do you expect. Harry's buds run the show.

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4. This reminds me of a point Al Franken made in one of his books.

I'm pretty sure it was Al. He said something about saving Medicare, Social Security, and NASA by sending our elderly into outer space.

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3. You mean they got rid of all their politicians?

I didn't realize there were so many.