Suicidal patient dies after quick release from North Las Vegas hospital
(WorldNews Health)

Tears streamed down Josefina Pacheco’s face as she stepped into the dark room with three tiny beds, the smell of cigarettes and a blanket over the window shutting out the afternoon light. Her 48-year-old niece, Ethel Christian Girard Mateos, suffocated herself with a plastic bag in that room. Mateos was severely mentally ill and went to North Vista Hospital for help. The hospital released her to an unregulated group home just one day before she killed herself. For the second time in six months, a suicidal patient died less than 24 hours after the North Las Vegas hospital released them to a group home without supervision or contacting the patient’s family. “They killed...