Story on Nevada’s community homes for mentally ill was gut-wrenching
January 23, 2018 - 9:00 pm
My heart ached after reading about the deplorable conditions in which our state’s most vulnerable were living (“Public health official ousted after homes audit,” Saturday Review-Journal).
In addition to being terminated, perhaps Amy Roukie of the state Division of Public Behavioral Health and the rest of the “inspectors” should be required to spend a week in each of the houses allegedly inspected. It’s guaranteed not one of them would take their shoes off to spend even a second in such squalid living conditions — which none of them apparently saw or knew anything about.
The bigger question is how did we fail these helpless souls so miserably? Our community’s vulnerable deserve so much better.