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Mental Health Patient Deaths

Advocates for people with mental health problems say some patients are dying unnecessarily after being released from state psychiatric facilities. A new report says with proper planning, a number of deaths could have been avoided. But that didn’t happen. And patients and their families pay the price. Rose Hoban reports.

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