The Times found that problems in patient care at Aurora Las Encinas Hospital, a mental facility in Pasadena, were continuing despite hospital officials' promises to fix deficiencies. Among the problems the Times found: the death of a 26-year-old patient after staffers failed to check on him for 24 hours, and an internal memo that showed that the hospital knew it had a problem with employees sleeping on the job, a document that was circulated several months before a 14-year-old girl was raped while hospital employees slept nearby.
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