http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOSPITALS_SKID_ROW?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=USLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Three hospitals acknowledge putting discharged homeless patients into taxicabs and sending them to the downtown skid row area, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Representatives of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles and Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center said they were helping patients because skid row offers them their best chance of getting services and shelter.
Patients are sent to skid row only if they are healthy enough, the representatives said. snip
Police Capt. Andy Smith said patients don't always reach their destinations, and that he often sees "individuals with not one but sometimes two different hospital bracelets, and people with bandages on, people who are barely ambulatory, and we'll end up calling an ambulance. Sometimes they are in such bad shape they are incoherent."
Gosh this makes me proud to be Merican.