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Earlier this year, Jeff Gambord realized he couldn’t remember the last time he had a physical exam. So he requested his medical record from Coalinga State Hospital, the psychiatric facility where he’s been a patient since 2006.
Gambord learned it’d been more than a year, and he was curious if this was common so he encouraged others to request their records, too. “When we went back and looked up a couple other patients on this unit, some go back as far as two or three years as not having received exams,” he said.
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Last year, 30 patients died at Coalinga State Hospital, a psychiatric facility in western Fresno County. That s more than 2 percent of the population a death rate that s almost twice the average of California’s entire state hospital system, and almost seven times higher than the rate within the state prison system.
In this interview, reporter Kerry Klein pulls back the curtain on how she investigated this story, including the data, documents, and patients she relied on to tell it, as well as how she approached sources who preferred to remain off the record.
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A registered sex offender in California who was let out of jail in 2018 was arrested Sunday for allegedly sexually abusing two more children, according to authorities.
Jorge Vasquez, 46, has been charged with eight counts of child molestation that allegedly occurred over the past three years and involved two young boys, ages six and 10, according to Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward. Vasquez allegedly groped the genitals of the two boys on multiple occasions, the criminal complaint filed Tuesday revealed.
The alleged sexual assault happened just months after Vasquez was released from Coalinga State Hospital by a Los Angeles County Superior judge, The Los Angeles Times reported.