By the time Ronald Lee was admitted to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric care in April 2022, the Manhattan facility had become a familiar stomping ground. Lee’s mental health had gone downhill after his teenage son was killed in Far Rockaway a few years before, and he said he had several inpatient psychiatric stays at the hospital.
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