Mental health care costs come with a price
Publisher’s note: This editorial first appeared in the Sacramento Bee on April 3, 2010.
No doubt there will be several official reviews into this week’s shooting death of mental health patient Linda Carol Clark. Administrators at Placerville’s Marshall Hospital will be asked why they don’t have a locked psychiatric unit at their facility or why Clark wasn’t adequately monitored or restrained.
The El Dorado Fire Protection District will review why its ambulance, the one Clark took, was not better secured.
Placerville police will spend time and money reviewing aspects of their slow chase. The officer who shot Clark will face hard questioning.
