California Nursing Homes Are Becoming 'De Facto Mental Health Centers'

All over California, people with serious mental illness are living in nursing homes that experts say weren’t meant to care for them — an investigation by LAist, APM Research Lab and The California Newsroom reveals. Some call it "warehousing" and say the practice might violate federal laws. The consequences have been deadly.

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