Tuesday, April 23, 2013

San Francisco to probe allegations of Nevada 'patient dumping'

Sacramento Bee
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Monday opened a formal investigation into whether the state of Nevada improperly "dumped" psychiatric patients in his city and throughout California. In a letter to the director of Nevada's Department of Health and Human Services, Herrera demanded that the state turn over documents related to its aggressive practice of discharging patients from a Las Vegas state mental hospital via Greyhound bus and transporting them to cities across America.