So is the hospital supposed to provide a free change of clothes, a paid hotel room, and a free wheelchair?
Anyone stopped to wonder why so many hospitals in California are shutting their doors?
What are these hospitals supposed to do with the homeless when they have to make room for the illegal aliens they’re supposed to take care of?
Oh, brother. Now, not only do hospitals have to provide free medical care to these people, they have to find them shelter afterwards.
Fine, you put up the leech then.
the first 5 posts are positively sick. wonder where it goes from here.
get back to us when it happens to your kids.
This is sad. I would think one of the Rescue Missions or churches in the area could have least put him up for awhile, but doesn’t sound like the hospital even tried to help him out by checking with those groups.
Preview of National Health Care????
The hospital ought to sue the city, county and state.
Here's another reason why a hospital ought to shut down an emergency room--then the crazy, drug-addled can't get into the hospital in the first place.
Was he an illegal immigrant?
I find this disgusting. Hospitals have social workers who are supposed to plan for this kind of thing. I don’t care who it is, an illegal or homeless or whatever — you don’t dump a physically and mentally handicapped human being in the street like a piece of garbage.
I found more info but I am not going to link it because it is from CBS/60 Minutes. If you want to read the piece search for “Dumped On Skid Row Anderson Cooper Reports”.
This is just barbaric. There is no excuse for what this hospital did and no excuse for the attitudes on display here.
Oh wait.. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
I suspect this is another story that has been exagerated to help make the case for “national health insurance” better known as Hilery care. While I am sure something along the lines of the reported story happened, I doubt if it happened the way it has been depicted. The capper is when they mention the 60 or so other incidences that have occured, all of which could be prevented if we had Hilery Care in place. Doubt all you read in the MSM and demand proof plenty before you believe any of it.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/01/MNG76BII1M1.DTL
Sarah Nome is not sick, but nobody can find a way to get her out of the hospital.
The 82-year-old Marin County woman cannot walk and says she has no place to go, so she has remained planted in a hospital bed at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center for the past year.
Despite every effort by Kaiser officials to get her out, Nome has refused to leave or pay the $3,090 a day that the hospital charges to put her up. She said she will continue squatting at Kaiser until a place is found in Marin where she can live and get the treatment she requires.
“When you pay Kaiser insurance month after month for 50 years like I have, you expect to be treated like a good patient and a human being,” Nome said the other day from her hospital bed. “If I had known that Kaiser would take me for only a couple of days and then would expect my family to take care of me, I would have paid my family what I paid for insurance.”
Unwilling to forcibly remove Nome, hospital officials have filed a lawsuit demanding that she pay the $1.2 million in room and other charges that she has run up outside her Kaiser health plan coverage. The suit also challenges as fraudulent the recent transfer of Nome’s San Anselmo home to her daughter.
Lawyers for the hospital even went to court and got an eviction notice, but it was never enforced. Their offer last month to put Nome up temporarily at Kaiser’s skilled nursing site in San Leandro was summarily rejected. Now, they say, it is up to Nome’s family to find her a permanent place to stay.
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Public Counsel is the L.A. and Beverly Hills Bar Association Pro Bono wing. They’re also the Los Angeles home of an organization called the “Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law”, an organization that George Soros has contributed to.
I find it VERY HARD TO BELIEVE that there are no government agencies in place to help these people when they are ready to be discharged. No social workers in this hospital? No one bothered to call anyone? They should have fixed it the first time. Shame on the staff for allowing this to happen. I would hate to be mentally ill with no money in this country.
If he’s homeless, where else are they supposed to be leaving him but where he came from? Don’t most people go back where they came from when they leave the hospital? What’s his complaint?
Yea it’s wrong that the hospital threw him out. I’d still believe there’s more to the story. Usually the homeless will just brush themselves off and keep going. I once saw this homeless guy get hit by a fellow driving a shiny new corvette. The driver jumped out the car, helped the homeless man to his feet, helped him put all his earthly possessions back in his grocery cart, brushed him off, got back in his cart and took off. I look at the homeless man who had a look on his face like,.....that was o.k.