Warning: this story deals with suicide

Jake Witts raced home scared after his fiancé messaged that she’d been sent home alone in a taxi from St. Joseph’s Healthcare about 19 hours after attempting suicide.

As he feared, she immediately tried to kill herself again.

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At least 15 patients have died by suicide since 2013.

The 23-year-old nurse said she was still impaired from the prescription drugs she took the first time — groggy and having difficulty walking — when she arrived to an empty home and purposely overdosed for the second time.

She was passed out on the couch with a tipped over bottle of pills by her side when Witts got to Binbrook from his work in Burlington.

“I arrived home mere minutes after

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