Patient-dumping on Skid Row investigated

[MMiz]

Patient-dumping on Skid Row investigated

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into suspected dumping of homeless people on Skid Row after police witnessed ambulances leaving five people on a street there during the weekend.

The city attorney's office is reviewing police videotapes and photographs of the five suspected dumping cases to determine whether the patients were falsely imprisoned during their transfer and whether the hospital, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, violated any laws regarding the treatment of patients.

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[Guardian]

the ambulance crews were nice enough to drive the homeless back to where they live, what's the problem?...ok I'm just kidding (but not really)

 

[Jon]

I saw this and meant to post it earlier this week.


This time it isn't AMR doing it, at least.

Ok... Serious question to get spun off - If you are told to discharge someone to XYZ Streetcorner, do you do it?

 

[Airwaygoddess]

great:glare: nothing like great PR to promote the profession. :censored: :censored: :angry:

 

[MMiz]

So where should they be taken? I'm being serious on this one. I've never transported a homeless person to any place besides a hospital so I'm not sure, but what is the protocol?

 

[oldschoolmedic]

Down here the "urban outdoorsmen" are escorted to the edge of the property by hospital security and left in their "living rooms", that is unless the nice boys in blue are waiting to make offers of jewelry to them, matching silver bracelets anyone? Anyway they usually dissappear after a hot meal and cleanup courtesy of the taxpayer.

 

[EMTBandit]

the ambulance crews were nice enough to drive the homeless back to where they live, what's the problem?...ok I'm just kidding (but not really)

Lmao. Great perspective to put it in lol.

 

[ffemt8978]

I'm curious as to how they justify even using an ambulance to return somebody to their "residence" in the first place.

 

[MMiz]

I'm curious as to how they justify even using an ambulance to return somebody to their "residence" in the first place.

Great question! Why not a taxi?

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Don't laugh, but some of this falls under the discharge planner, the MIA protocol (medically indigent adult) and Medi-Cal. I worked on a step down cardiac unit and we had some awsome discharge/medical social workers, but man they had work cut out for them with the homeless.