Hospital pays for dumping sick woman
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A LOS ANGELES hospital will pay US$450,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that it “dumped” a mentally ill homeless lady in the street, wearing only simple paper pajamas.
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer called the practice of patient dumping “unconscionable” and said on Twitter on Tuesday that the matter “will not be tolerated.”
The city sued the Gardens Regional Hospital and Medical Center in April last year, stating that its employees had driven the 38-year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia and other mental disorders to a welcome center for the homeless in the city’s Skid Row district, then left her there in her paper hospital pajamas.
The woman, who was also diabetic and asthmatic, had no money, medical prescription or identity papers and could not be admitted. She then wandered the streets for hours before someone reported her to the authorities.
Feuer announced Monday that the city and hospital had settled the suit, which alleged that the same woman had been abandoned in the same way at least five times before.
The medical center is among a number of Los Angeles metropolitan hospitals prosecuted in recent years for patient dumping. Skid Row is home to thousands of homeless people living in tents or out in the open.
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