LAist Investigates: The Truth Inside California's Nursing Homes – a special single episode deep dive on Imperfect Paradise with LAist reporter Elly Yu.
After a 6-months long investigation, Elly discovered an alarming trend…
Thousands of mentally ill residents, many who are not elderly, have been placed into nearly 100 nursing homes. In California, nursing homes have become de facto mental health facilities because there are just not enough places for people to go.

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