Hospitals, the Homeless and 'Patient Dumping' on Skid Row
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There's no specific law against hospitals "dumping" homeless patients on the streets of skid row, so a measure introduced today in Sacramento would make it a crime. Hospitals ask what they're supposed to do with 90,000 homeless in LA County, and just 40 beds for the chronically ill with no place to go. Plus, the latest on a possible new owner of the Los Angeles Times.
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Hospitals, the Homeless and 'Patient Dumping' on Skid Row ()
There was public outrage recently when a driver forced a quadriplegic man out of an ambulance into a gutter on a skid row. Last year, a woman was left wandering in the same neighborhood with an IV still in her arm. There are 55 recent examples of what's called "patient dumping," but only one prosecution, partly because there's no specific law against the practice. Moreover, hospitals ask what they're supposed to do with 90,000 homeless in Los Angeles County, and just 40 beds for the chronically ill with no place to go. Today, Democratic State Senator Gil Cedillo announced plans to remedy that. We hear from Cedillo, the hospital association and advocates for the homeless.
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- Jim Lott: Executive Vice President of the Hospital Association of Southern California
- Pete White: Director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network
- Gil Cedillo: California State Senator (D-22nd District)
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