{Huntington, West Virginia}...The Department of Health and Human Resources is investigating to figure out who is at fault after officials at the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital discovered some patients had been discharged to Pathway, a facility in Hamilin that was not licensed. The facility is actually a boarding house that transitions alcoholics and drug addicts back into society. Hospital workers came to pick up the patients Monday, but they weren't there. Pathway's operator Rick Clay, said they took off several hours before. All were located and returned to Mildred Mitchell-Bateman. Hospital admissions director Melinda Smith says another department in the hospital had formed a partnership with Pathway recently and believed it was licensed by the state.
