Hospitals discharging people and dumping them off at homeless shelters
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Gemini — 1 year ago(August 17, 2024 09:46 PM)
This is definitely not the law. You can dispute your discharge if you believe you're not well enough to go home, but the hospital is not legally obliged to make sure your housing situation is sorted. I would LOVE to be wrong about this but I doubt you have a source for your claims.
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Gemini — 1 year ago(August 17, 2024 10:43 PM)
You mad cuz I made a fool out of you.
All you had to do was use critical thinking skills when you watched that video because in the video it clearly states at the end that it was patient dumping. Patient dumping is illegal in the state of Massachusetts where the incident occurred. -
Pandora — 1 year ago(August 16, 2024 09:00 AM)
Idk it seemed like Christina wanted to go to a homeless shelter
I really think she had no idea what to expect and so probably imagined it to be a lot nicer than it is. I mean tbf, I don’t actually have a clue what a homeless shelter is like either but I imagine it to be pretty bad. Maybe there is a middle ground and it’s just kind of ok
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/. — 1 year ago(August 16, 2024 04:21 AM)
Right? I don't see the problem. Should hospitals just
not
treat homeless people because they don't have anywhere to go after? Lol. It's not the hospitals job to sort your housing situation out .
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Pandora — 1 year ago(August 16, 2024 08:55 AM)
Exactly. Hospitals need the beds in order to treat people who require medical attention. Once that person no longer needs to be there then they are no longer the hospital’s responsibility. People are lucky they are getting an Uber as I would imagine a lot of the time they would have to make their own way to a shelter if they were homeless.
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Lilith — 1 year ago(August 17, 2024 08:50 PM)
What really is unfortunate about this is something along the lines of Matthew Perry. Granted, he wasn't homeless, but what if he were "conscious" enough to realize that something had been done to him that he did not anticipate or expect and got himself to an Emergency Department. Would they do a rapid detox and send him on his way (ie: back into the hands of those who abused their positions of privilege, who would now be even more angry and more determined). After all, their only job is to stabilize the patient and then release them. Sometimes, if an OD comes in, a rapid detox can be done, but no form of actual addiction therapy is provided. That's why there are drug rehab centres.
Insurance charges everyone an arm and a leg and then fights everyone tooth and nail when it comes to covering anything.
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