 He said that during his time there, all patients were encouraged to reach out to family members in other states if they wanted to speed up their discharge.The Bee published a series of articles that revealed that the facility has, since 2008, discharged some 1,500 patients, some of them still mentally ill and indigent, with one-way Greyhound bus tickets to out-of-state destinations without adequate provisions for food, medication, housing, or medical treatment, a practice derisively termed Greyhound therapy.The report found that a third of the patients were sent to neighboring California, the bulk of them arriving in Los Angeles and 36 in San Francisco.