Video Said to Capture Skid Row Dumping
By Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writer
2:00 PM PST, March 22, 2006
Authorities released a videotape this afternoon of what they say is the dumping of a 63-year-old woman on the streets of skid row.
The videotape, recorded by security cameras outside the Union Rescue Mission entrance on San Pedro Street on Monday afternoon, shows a taxicab pulling a U-turn and then driving out of view. A few seconds later, a woman wearing a hospital gown and no shoes walks from the same direction, wandering in the street and on the sidewalk for about three minutes before a Union Rescue Mission staff person escorts her inside the mission.
LAPD Capt. Andrew Smith said he believes the taxi took the woman, a 63-year-old Gardena resident, downtown against her will after she was discharged from Kaiser Permanente Bellflower on Monday.
More:
March 23, 2006 from LAVoice.org — Cab Ride to Hell: Another Skid Row Dumpee Arrives
March 24, 2006 from CBS News — L.A. Investigating Alleged Patient Dumping
Previously:
December 22, 2005 — Kaiser Permanente dumps patients on skid row
Kaiser Thrive Exposed would like to personally thank Dr. Geoff Galbraith - Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute board member; and Vice President, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Quality Improvement Management - for inspiring us to create this website. Did we make it into the top 5?
Busted!
I’m knee-deep in another project right now, but I can’t wait to investigate this further. Is this tape being run on the news? Maybe you can find it on Google video?
There is a link to the video in the original article, which is linked to above. I could only get it to play with Internet Explorer.
[...] L.A. files patient “dumping” charges — Kaiser Permanente is accused of leaving a homeless woman to wander on skid row. [...]
[...] The pact could resolve suits filed against the HMO after a woman was left wondering on skid row. [...]