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They died in hallways. In line. Alone. Their deaths are the human cost of Steward’s financial neglect.
Gilberto Melendez-Brancaccio often became confused and seized by religious delusions when he didn’t take his antipsychotic medication, and that was how the police found him, in June 2021, in a Quincy hotel, telling people he was God. The police summoned an …