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Story on Nevada’s community homes for mentally ill was gut-wrenching

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.

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