From a state-wide perspective, it seems the answer is no.  In my local newspaper, there have been horrific stories lately about the neglect and abuse of patients who have the misfortune of being mentally ill.  The stories I am about to cite are unfortunately not unique to any one state. 

I read one headline in the newspaper where health care technicians at a state psychiatric hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, were charged in the beating of a male patient.  In yet another story, a...