Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Sunday Globe Special: Nevada Drops Coverage For Mental Patients

"Once suicidal, shipped off, he now battles state over care" by Rick Lyman |  New York Times, September 22, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO — 24 mentally ill and homeless people bused out of Nevada and left on the streets of San Francisco with little or no medication, just a small sampling, San Francisco’s city attorney, Dennis Herrera says, of the estimated 1,500 people who were bused all over the country in recent years from the state-operated Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Center in Las Vegas and other Nevada institutions....

Mary Woods, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, laid out the state’s position in an e-mail. Hospitals in several cities have programs intended to reunite discharged psychiatric patients with their families and hometowns....

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Yeah, that's all about a a single, well-documented case and thus should be dismissed.

Related:

"The San Francisco city attorney filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the state of Nevada, claiming it has wrongfully and intentionally bused psychiatric patients to the city and declined to pay the costs connected with their care....

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