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A Nevada psychiatric hospital under scrutiny for busing hundreds of patients out of state in recent years suffers from "systemic" problems that compromise the safety of the patients who are being discharged, a federal investigation has determined.
Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada's primary public hospital for mentally ill people, is at risk of losing critical federal funding if it fails to correct problems identified in a report issued Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The agency's report stemmed from a specific complaint about the treatment of a homeless man, suffering from schizophrenia and depression, who in February was discharged from Rawson-Neal to a Greyhound bus bound for Sacramento, without any arrangement for his treatment or housing.
But given the concerns raised, the agency has embarked on a second investigation of the hospital's policies and practices, said Rufus Arther, director of hospital operations for the agency's Western region
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