Hospitals Dumping Patients in the Streets, including the Elderly. This is insane!

[Pull Up the Roots]

So coli brehs want urban hospitals to be defacto homeless shelters

Some ya'll don't live in any type of reality

You're fine with patients being dumped on the street like they're trash? No wonder you were fine with supporting Brian Kemp.

 

[Dipsey Doo]

You're fine with patients being dumped on the street like they're trash? No wonder you were fine with supporting Brian Kemp.

It's the hospital's responsibility to house them indefinitely after they get discharged if they don't have anywhere to go?

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Emergency rooms are only required to treat the symptoms. They’re not primary care providers but that’s how uninsured people treat them, and that’s also the general perception.

 

[Laidbackman]

Emergency rooms are only required to treat the symptoms. They’re not primary care providers but that’s how uninsured people treat them, and that’s also the general perception.

When cops are paid to serve and protect, they mean serve and protect the corporations, not the citizens. But that's also the general perception. So what's new.

Guess they'll be better off going to a hospital in Canada

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

It's the hospital's responsibility to house them indefinitely after they get discharged if they don't have anywhere to go?

It's the hospital's responsibility to treat their patients humanely even after they've been discharged. It's also the law. Why dump them on the street when you could take them to a shelter?

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

It's the hospital's responsibility to treat their patients humanely even after they've been discharged. It's also the law. Why dump them on the street when you could take them to a shelter?

Depending on when they’re “dumped” most shelters will be closed and/or at full capacity.

 

[Dipsey Doo]

It's the hospital's responsibility to treat their patients humanely even after they've been discharged. It's also the law. Why dump them on the street when you could take them to a shelter?

Have you worked in healthcare in any capacity?

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Have you worked in healthcare in any capacity?

Are you ever going to engage with what's in front of you or just keep fishing for excuses by asking pointless questions?

 

[Dipsey Doo]

Are you ever going to engage with what's in front of you or just keep fishing for excuses by asking pointless questions?

I made my point fairly clear. You engage in pointless ad hominems.

You don't have to respond again

 

[RhodyRum]

It's the hospital's responsibility to treat their patients humanely even after they've been discharged. It's also the law. Why dump them on the street when you could take them to a shelter?

And who's going to do this?

I understand that your heart is in the right place, but you think the hospital should be a courier service as well? And as @Ethnic Vagina Finder mentioned above, what if all of the shelters are closed or fully occupied?

Not to mention most shelters are basically a death sentence for homeless people that are weak, feeble, or extremely sickly

 

[MajesticLion]

Wickedness.

 

[Roger king]

This shouldnt happen to any human being and especially not people that are in need of medical help

 

[Hoodoo Child]

CRAZY thumbnail

 

[How Sway?]

Emergency rooms are only required to treat the symptoms. They’re not primary care providers but that’s how uninsured people treat them, and that’s also the general peperception.

Theyre not primary care providers, but Every hospital is supposed to have a step down unit for people transitioning from the ER or the ICU who are stable but aren't capable of being at home just yet.

There's no reason why an elderly woman should be lying on the sidewalk because the hospital kicked her out.

 

[OneManGang]

Theyre not primary care providers, but Every hospital is supposed to have a step down unit for people transitioning fromthe ER or the ICU esp for people incapable of being at home just yet.

There's no reason why an elderly woman should be lying on the sidewalk because the hospital kicked her out.

Step down units don’t house people with no reasons to be in the hospital anymore indefinitely. That’s not their purpose. They are for people no longer needing a certain level of care but not ready for discharge. Once you’re medically stable hospitals can and will discharge you anywhere.

And to be perfectly honest with you, hospitals are disgusting filthy places more likely to give you infection the longer you stay in them than you need to. It shouldn’t be and isn’t be the hospital’s responsibility to house people. It’s the municipality’s issue to address