Another Sunday, another stupid Las Vegas Sun editorial: A damning series of stories published this year in the Sacramento Bee accuses Nevada of systematically dumping mental health patients on other states, particularly California. According to the Bee’s analysis, the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas over the past five years discharged more than 1,500 patients to the Greyhound bus station with one-way tickets out of state.
The details of some of the cases are awful. Consider what happened to James Flavy Coy Brown, who had spent three days in the Las Vegas hospital being treated for schizophrenia and other mood disorders. He says he was told there was no place for him in Nevada and sent by taxi to the bus station.
Brown had a ticket to Sacramento, a few days’ worth of medication, some crackers, bottles of Ensure and not much else. He didn’t have identification, had never been to Sacramento and didn’t have any friends or family there. He had no follow-up treatment plan besides a verbal instruction to call 911 when he arrived.
Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/apr/28/outrageous-case/#ixzz2RpsN7Juk
First, I am still skeptical about Brown case. If you are going to California, why Sacramento? It's just a two bit town compared to other California cities.
And the Sun can only cite only 1 case of supposed patient dumping out of thousands of patients served.
And for California to complain, they have had their own cases of patient dumping, especially the Los Angeles area, where patients were seen in the emergency room and instead of being treated, they were dumped in the streets.
Sorry, but we get a lot of people from California who are mentally ill, especially the liberals and our state is slowly becoming Californiaized.
If we threw 1 to California, so what? We have got so many Californians back in return, this makes us about even... or we ought to ship more Californians home, where they belong.
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