From the Los Angeles Times:

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center on Friday settled charges that it left a paraplegic man crawling around downtown Los Angeles’ skid row in a hospital gown and colostomy bag by agreeing to pay $1 million and be monitored by a former U.S. attorney for up to five years.

The resolution marks the biggest settlement so far in the city’s efforts to crack down on hospitals and other institutions that “dump” patients along skid row.

Witnesses who came to the man’s aid said they saw him dragging himself on the ground with hospital papers and documents clenched in his teeth while the driver sat in her van and applied makeup before driving off.

The Los Angeles city attorney’s office said it is investigating more than a dozen other hospital and medical offices suspected of dumping patients.

See earlier post here.

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