Imperfect Paradise presents LAist Investigates: The Truth Inside California's Nursing Homes
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido is joined by LAist reporter Elly Yu for a special single episode of LAist Investigates, the first of many to come episodes dedicated to one of our newsroom’s investigations. Elly breaks down the history and reality of treatment that led to the “warehousing” of mental health patients in nursing homes across California.
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| 0:34.2 | to Imperfect Paradise from L.A. Studios. I'm your host, Antonia Ceregido. |
| 0:39.4 | Occasionally, we're going to bring you an episode that's a little different. |
| 0:43.6 | Today, a special single episode, Deep Dive, with one of our LAist reporters. |
| 0:49.1 | L.EU spent months investigating nursing homes in California and uncovered thousands of people with serious |
| 0:54.9 | mental illness living in facilities not intended to care for mentally ill patients. |
| 1:00.3 | Many of these patients are not actually elderly. |
| 1:03.6 | I've had a patient as young as 19 years old, 22. |
| 1:08.7 | For people working in these nursing homes, the conditions can feel dangerous. |
| 1:12.8 | They ran faster and moved better than I did. |
| 1:17.2 | Nursing homes have become de facto mental health facilities |
| 1:20.5 | because they're just not enough places for people to go. |
| 1:24.1 | That and more coming up on Imperfect Paradise from LAIS studios. |
| 1:30.2 | LAS reporter, L.A.U, spent six months examining complicated federal data to uncover this alarming |
| 1:36.3 | trend about how nursing homes primarily funded by public dollars have become de facto mental |
| 1:41.8 | illness treatment centers. |
| 1:43.9 | Ellie worked with APM Research Lab and the California Newsroom on this investigation. |
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