These are your homeless and mentally ill patients.
Give them some meds and put them on a bus somewhere else.
Wow..1500 patients have been sent to live in 45 other states.
And that 1500 is from just one hospital.
Hospital scrutinized after local man ends up in CA shelter - Local News - Las Vegas, NV | NBC News
Nevada is in the spotlight, for what some say is a growing and disturbing problem in our country: “patient dumping”. That’s when patients are placed on buses and sent to other jurisdictions, even other states, sometimes before they’ve received complete care.
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Simones who came across Brown, felt something was wrong and called the Sacramento Bee Newspaper. The paper has not only been reporting on Brown, it also reviewed five years’ worth of bus receipts from the hospital. It found more than 1,500 patients have been sent to other cities via Greyhound bus. By last year, nearly 400 sent to 45 states.
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