LA Nursing Home To Settle Allegations Of Patient Care Violations, Including Dumping Diabetic Man On Skid Row
Patient dumping has become a persistent problem both in California and nationwide. In agreeing to the settlement, Avalon Villa did not admit the allegations or concede liability.
Los Angeles Times:
South L.A. Nursing Home Will Pay $450,000 For Alleged Skid Row Dumping Of Diabetic Man
A South Los Angeles nursing home will pay $450,000 to settle allegations of patient care violations, including dumping a diabetic man in a wheelchair at a skid row homeless shelter without his permission or his medicine, City Atty. Mike Feuer announced Thursday. Ronald Anderson, 51, said that more than a year after he entered the Avalon Villa Health Care home in Willowbrook to recover from a partial foot amputation, staff members told him in April that they could no longer provide him care, put him in a van and dropped him at the Union Rescue Mission. (Holland, 6/28)
In other news from across the state —
Long Beach Press-Telegram:
9 More Medical Professionals Charged In Pacific Hospital Healthcare Fraud Scheme
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced nine more doctors will face federal charges tied to their alleged roles in a now $950 million healthcare scheme centered around Pacific Hospital in Long Beach. ...In exchange, the medical professionals referred thousands of patients who received surgeries and other services at Pacific Hospital. (Percy, 6/28)
The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Tri-City To Indefinitely Suspend Inpatient Mental Health Services
In a move that will significantly limit the availability of emergency psychiatric services in coastal North County, Tri-City Medical Center announced this week that it plans to close two heavily-used mental health units within the next 60 days. In a special meeting held Tuesday, hospital directors voted 7-0 to “suspend operations” of the Oceanside hospital’s 18-bed behavioral health unit and its recently-opened crisis stabilization unit. The move, announced to the public Wednesday, brought an extremely concerned response Thursday at the hospital’s monthly board meeting. (Sisson, 6/28)