Opinion: Hospitals Should Be Fined for Patient-Dumping
Members of the Sacramento City Council should support councilmember Kevin McCarty, who has proposed an ordinance intended to prevent patient dumping that would require "warm-hand-to-warm-hand" transfers of homeless patients and establish fines for hospitals that do not comply, a Sacramento Bee editorial argues.
- "City Needs To Fight Patient Dumping: Hospitals Should Face Fines if They Leave Homeless People on Streets" (Sacramento Bee, 6/21).