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    Are Hospitals Dumping Patients on LA's Skid Row?

    The LAPD has videotape of five discharged patients from Metropolitan Hospital being dropped off by ambulances on Skid Row.  The Hospital says that's where they wanted to go, but the patients told officers they were taken against their will.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    The LAPD has videotape of five discharged patients from Metropolitan Hospital being dropped off by ambulances on Skid Row. The Hospital says that's where they wanted to go, but the patients told officers they were taken against their will.

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    Hospitals Dumping Homeless at Skid Row and Prop 84
    1. 1:15Are Hospitals Dumping Patients on LA's Skid Row?You’re reading this
    2. 12:07Proposition 84
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Karen Radziner

      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Rocky Delgadillo

      Los Angeles City Attorney

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      Executive Vice President, Hospital Association of Southern California

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    The full episode

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    Hospitals Dumping Homeless at Skid Row and Prop 84
    1. 1:15Are Hospitals Dumping Patients on LA's Skid Row?You’re reading this
    2. 12:07Proposition 84
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