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Sounds like the source of the problem is referenced here:
The patient can be discharged when the clinicians have determined that any further care can be provided as an outpatient, “provided the individual is given a plan for appropriate follow-up care as part of the discharge instructions,” the federal agency said in an operations manual.
If she’s in a state where she might at any point fatally worsen and she has no chance of non-emergency care, this sounds a lot more reasonable.
Though the headline states the patient was discharged. So its something else, but if the article has no further substance theres nothing to go on. Anyone want to go visit room 373?
They can be discharged as soon as they’re no longer on the brink of death, but that’s not as thorough as most people would want for themselves.
Something like repeated strokes or blood clots can be treated with outpatient care, but will also probably lead to grievous disability or death if you don’t have any way to pay for outpatient care. Medical facilities are not required to provide non urgent care to patients who cannot pay for it, so poor, uninsured, or underinsured people with chronic illnesses can find themselves in a kind of limbo where they have to get very sick before they can be treated.
It is total speculation, but if she had a condition which could suddenly and fatally worsen and the hospital only temporarily stabilized her, she might have wanted to stay in a medical facility, so she at least had a chance to get emergency treatment in time.
It's not a hotel or an apartment, it's hospital property. They can't just drag them out?
Yeah I don’t get it. At my hospital, if you’re discharged and refuse to leave, you’re getting security escort. Either walk out like an adult or get dragged out.
It's Florida so it's probably a huge fat cunt they can't move on their own.
I promise you, we can move the largest people on earth. This premise is weird but I haven't read the article
I read it and it just says the hospital won't say why they can't make them leave. It's really weird, because people are dragged against their will for way less.
They won't say why because it's under active legal adjudication, and they've been told by their legal team to keep their mouths shut. Once it's all settled in court, we'll get all the details.
Since the hospital can't share information on a legal matter, the commenters on the article are fascinating. People's baseline guesses from limited information are all over the map. What is the woman in their imagination like? Why is she doing this? What does this woman they're imagining deserve?
The comments from people who work in healthcare (and therefore have more information to work off of) are more interesting in a useful way, of course.
Are they still bringing her food? She's officially discharged, they should stop doing that.