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  • Woman Overstays Hospital Stay by a Year

    02/17/2005 3:10:42 AM PST · by foolscap · 41 replies · 1,430+ views
    hosted.ap.org ^ | Feb 16, 2005 | BRIAN SKOLOFF
    More than a year after Sarah Nome was deemed healthy and given her discharge papers, the 82-year-old woman stubbornly refuses to leave her hospital bed. Nome admits there is no reason she should be racking up unpaid medical bills - which have now topped $1 million - but says she has nowhere else to turn. Now Kaiser Permanente's San Rafael Medical Center in California is suing her for the cost of her stay and trying to show her the door. "The thing is, I have no medical problem. I've been here more than a year, never had any medication, never...