Long-missing patients

I am sure that there are more than these two patients missing; must be some from many years ago. The annual reports used to average around six to ten missing; some they thought probably just crossed the border, and were never heard from again; since the patients had ties to the U.S.A.

The local RCMP is looking for information about these six missing people, two of which were Riverview hospital patients, ( I actually thought that Linda Stephen, had been found. Damn secret medical community, not giving the public ALL of the tools needed to enable a safe recovery of these patients. This woman should have, and could have been found fairly easily using todays technology.  )

 File No. 2001-30232 Kenneth Sanford would be in his 70s now, after he went missing from Riverview Hospital on Aug. 1, 2001. The 59 year old had previously wandered away from the hospital but was found by staff members watching cars in the area. He wore full dentures and had a glass eye. A search of the hospital grounds by search and rescue teams turned up nothing. He had been homeless in the past and suffered from both mental and medical illnesses.

 File No. 2011-9427 Linda Stephen was last seen on the grounds of Riverview Hospital at 9:30 a.m. on April 8, 2011. Details of the 58-year-old’s case were fanned out to other police agencies in the area, but she was nowhere to be found.


 A different idea for Coquitlam's Riverview Hospital grounds
Another maybe well-meaning idea to populate the Riverview Hospital grounds, with a mix of "normal" and mentally ill people; sadly the "normal" people will not buy into it; especially the growing demographic that is prevalent in south-western British Columbia will not want anything to do with the concept. (pers. obs.)