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San Francisco OKs Patient-Dumping Lawsuit Settlement

Oct 28, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors have accepted a $400,000 payment from Nevada to settle allegations that psychiatric patients were wrongly shipped to California upon discharge.

The Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved the settlement without comment.

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Breakdown: Mental Health Services in Nevada

Jan 03, 2014

Nevada's mental health system is in peril due to years of budget cuts and neglect. We talk about how much investment it will take to get the mentally ill the care they need

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San Francisco Sues Nevada Over Patient Busing

Sep 11, 2013

San Francisco’s city attorney filed a lawsuit against the state of Nevada over allegations of patient busing

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Following Scandal, Psychiatric Patients Crowd Local Emergency Rooms

May 06, 2013

Disruption at Rawson-Neal following the busing scandal has caused a backlog of psychiatric cases at local emergency rooms. Last week, University Medical Center declared an "internal disaster" due to the large volume of mentally ill patients. The state placed a psychologist at the hospital to help manage the influx. Is it enough? And how can the hospital help open beds for patients with physical problems?

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End Of The Road For Patient Busing

Apr 30, 2013

BY AMY KINGSLEY -- Monday, Gov. Brian Sandoval publicly acknowledged that the state had put ten psychiatric patients on buses and sent them out of state, to places where they had no family members or arrangements for treatment.