Back in the 1960s\1970s I was always seeing law suits rightly or wrongly against state mental hospitals. I also remember seeing newspaper accounts of the states continuing cutting the budgets of this institutions.
Of course maybe your experience was the exception!
Of course those hospitals were sued all the time, for not spinning straw into gold.
Have you ever been locked in with raving violent schizophrenics for eight or twelve hours? Try it before you get judgmental about a job nobody wants to do.
Having the patients freeze to death on subway grates or get raped in homeless encampments isn’t really an improvement.