S.F. Examiner file photo
"City Attorney Dennis
Herrera is probing allegations that Nevada had a long-standing policy of
sending mentally ill patients to California on buses.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera isn’t buying Nevada Gov. Brian
Sandoval’s assurance that his state only discharged and dumped a single
patient from its Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital here in California.
After all, The Sacramento Bee reported that Rawson-Neal bought bus tickets for more than 1,500 mentally ill patients over the past five years, and that around one-third of those buses went to California, including 36 to San Francisco. But Nevada officials have maintained that nearly all of those discharges were appropriate..."
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"Two staff members who violated discharge policies at a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital were fired Monday and three others are being disciplined following an investigation into busing patients to other states, the governor's office and agency officials said Monday.
The Department of Health and Human Services said another four people who were involved no longer work at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital.
Gov. Brian Sandoval earlier in the day announced the firings and said his administration is looking for a national expert in the mental health field to review all the state's facilities "to ensure best practices are being implemented and followed."
The moves come in the wake of an investigative series by the Sacramento Bee after James F. Brown, who suffered from schizophrenia and depression, was given a one-way bus ticket in February to Sacramento, Calif., where he knew no one. The newspaper then reviewed bus ticket receipts dating to 2008 and found that the hospital, part of the Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services, had transported about 1,500 patients to other states. Roughly 500 went to California..."
IN TODAY'S ABC NEWS THE MAP SHOWS THAT THIS PATIENT DUMPING HAS NOT ONLY BEEN AN ESTABLISHED PRACTICE FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS BUT THEIR MAP INDICATES THE PATENTS ARE IN EVERY STATE, NOT JUST CALIFORNIA. WTF????????????
After all, The Sacramento Bee reported that Rawson-Neal bought bus tickets for more than 1,500 mentally ill patients over the past five years, and that around one-third of those buses went to California, including 36 to San Francisco. But Nevada officials have maintained that nearly all of those discharges were appropriate..."
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(BULLSHIT!)
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"Two staff members who violated discharge policies at a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital were fired Monday and three others are being disciplined following an investigation into busing patients to other states, the governor's office and agency officials said Monday.
The Department of Health and Human Services said another four people who were involved no longer work at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital.
Gov. Brian Sandoval earlier in the day announced the firings and said his administration is looking for a national expert in the mental health field to review all the state's facilities "to ensure best practices are being implemented and followed."
The moves come in the wake of an investigative series by the Sacramento Bee after James F. Brown, who suffered from schizophrenia and depression, was given a one-way bus ticket in February to Sacramento, Calif., where he knew no one. The newspaper then reviewed bus ticket receipts dating to 2008 and found that the hospital, part of the Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services, had transported about 1,500 patients to other states. Roughly 500 went to California..."
IN TODAY'S ABC NEWS THE MAP SHOWS THAT THIS PATIENT DUMPING HAS NOT ONLY BEEN AN ESTABLISHED PRACTICE FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS BUT THEIR MAP INDICATES THE PATENTS ARE IN EVERY STATE, NOT JUST CALIFORNIA. WTF????????????
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