In October 2020, Romero got a call from Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame: Her daughter, then 31, had been diagnosed as gravely disabled and needed surgery for a brain aneurysm. A week later, her daughter left the hospital against medical advice before the staffers could arrange for conservatorship, which is court-mandated mental health treatment, she said. Police brought her back by ambulance the next night, but she ran away while the hospital waited for administration to review her case, Romero said. … [Read more...] about S.F. BART cop and one mother’s struggle to save her mentally ill homeless daughter: ‘Everyone needs to start caring’
