Homeless dumping

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Homeless Dumping : A new trend in health?

Los Angeles - In the streets of Los Angeles, a truck from a local hospital by the side of the pavement drew open and a man rushed to hospital contaminated grass, a broken colostomy bag, which his trousers around ankles, and not to not walk in a wheelchair, not Walker, Homeless Dumping : A new trend in health; and, most importantly, nowhere to go, even if it could become more active.

Sounds like a scene from a movie, right? But it works. This is the true nature of the charges against Hollywood Pre*****yterian Hospital Medical Center, less than a week before done. In addition, Hollywood Pre*****yterian Medical Center has also been accused of homeless dumping in 2005, but hospital officials refused the request.

Various news sources, including ABC, AM New York and Los Angeles Times, all interviews with police Detective Russ Long, a detective for the region, Skid Row, which is expressed, said: If there is an explanation to me just forget this point, said Long.

The incident would not have much publicity, if not received at least two dozen witnesses, and some had to gather information about the van, which investigators traced back to the truck, taken by telephone, notice and description of the van used Hollywood Pre*****yterian Medical Center. In addition, a bicycle cop in the area minutes after the vehicle was about 41 years Hispanic stranger who said that dumped the use of his legs in 1990, lost in a car accident.

How awful, such claims seem to be back and eye witnesses, it is not necessarily a new experience for the homeless residents of Skid Row.

Only three months before this incident, charges against the office of the Kaiser Los Angeles City Attorney's Permanente, the parent company of Kaiser Permanente Bellflower, a medical facility in Los Angeles for the filing of a 63 year old homeless women on Skid Row . Items which have ensured the indictment, made a videotape of a woman from a taxi with a skirt and stockings.

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Hospital accused of 'dumping' homeless patient
By William M. Welch, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — A city prosecutor investigating whether hospitals are discharging homeless patients onto the city's Skid Row says the latest alleged example "makes my stomach turn."
A paralyzed man was found last week crawling the streets without a wheelchair and wearing a broken colostomy bag.

Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo accuses the hospital, Hollywood Pre*****yterian, of refusing to cooperate with his investigation. The hospital denied it.

The case is the latest in a string of episodes over the past two years in which indigent patients were released by Los Angeles-area hospitals onto some of this city's toughest blocks after being medically discharged. Delgadillo said he has expanded his investigation to include the latest episode.

"They have stonewalled and decided not to give us records," Delgadillo said in an interview following a meeting with lawyers for the hospital. "It certainly does make me concerned about whether or not they are interested in owning up to what they've done here."

Hollywood Pre*****yterian spokesman Dan Springer said the hospital "is understandably horrified about what transpired" in the case of the unidentified 41-year-old man, who city officials say is now a patient at a public hospital.

Springer said that a contract driver for the hospital violated its policies by releasing the patient onto the street — at the patient's request. Springer refuted Delgadillo's charge that Hollywood Pre*****yterian is not cooperating with investigators. He said the hospital is trying to ensure the patient's medical privacy is protected.

"I can confirm to you it was indeed a Hollywood Pre*****yterian bus. It was being driven by a contracted driver," Springer said. "We have very strict policies and procedures in place within this hospital regarding the discharge of homeless individuals and some of those policies were clearly violated."

L.A. City Councilwoman Jan Perry, whose district includes Skid Row, said state law requires hospitals to make appropriate arrangements before releasing indigents.

Los Angeles has the nation's largest Skid Row, a 50-block area of warehouses, stores and institutions just east of the downtown business district. Social service providers located in Skid Row are often full and unequipped to provide medical care, said Orlando Ward, spokesman for Midnight Mission.

In the most recent case, Delgadillo said the patient was initially taken to the Midnight Mission facility by ambulance then returned to the hospital by the same ambulance crew because the shelter was not prepared to receive him.

The patient remained in a hospital waiting room or hallway for eight or nine hours then was taken back to Skid Row in a hospital vehicle, Delgadillo said.

"He was crawling with his hands in human wastes, with his entire possessions in a bag clinched between his teeth," Delgadillo said.

"The very people who are charged with delivering individuals from their darkest hour are actually taking them into their darkest hour."

Springer said the patient was first taken to the mission because he had listed it as his address. He said the man was taken back to Skid Row and released at his own request. He said the hospital's emergency room staff had determined the patient was "physically capable of leaving."

Investigators say it's unclear the patient was mentally capable of fending for himself, however. Delgadillo said the man was admitted to a county hospital.

"This hospital (Hollywood Pre*****yterian) should have known he did not have the mental capacity to make a decision," he said.

Police have waged a crackdown on crime in Skid Row in recent months, trying to rid the area of violent criminals, drug dealing and prostitution.

Last November the city attorney charged a Kaiser Permanente hospital in connection with a 63-year-old patient found wandering Skid Row in a hospital gown. The hospital was charged with endangering dependent care patients and false imprisonment.

In another case, Hollywood Pre*****yterian was accused in 2005 of dumping a man who was unable to walk and strapped to a gurney.

Perry says the practice must end. "It is unconscionable to treat a human being in such a callous manner," she said.

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