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homeless patients

“I want to give something back and help out, because I was helped.”

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Posted on August 28, 2008 - 6:29am at Stone Soup Station
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If I had to select one the one thing that stands out the most to me when dealing with my Homeless brothers and sisters on the street, it would hands-down be their unending desire to assist others who find themselves falling upon hard times.....

LA: "...a new city ordinance makes it a misdemeanor for health facilities to transport a patient to a place other than his or he

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Posted on August 5, 2008 - 6:24am at Stone Soup Station
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Score one for the little people....

Health Blog : Los Angeles Bars Hospitals from Dumping Homeless Patients

August 4, 2008,

"...agreement requires hospital pay $1 million to two agencies that provide medical services & beds to homeless people recoverin

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Posted on May 31, 2008 - 12:50pm at Stone Soup Station
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Well, we'll see if this'll stop the more egregious cases of dumping but believe it when I tell you that our own hospitals here in Nashville send folks packing all the time who could certainly use some time recovering in their units before being discharged back onto the streets.

"street medicine: healthcare providers go to where the homeless are, rather than waiting for them to come to our offices and em

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Posted on March 27, 2008 - 6:31am at Stone Soup Station
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Now this is outreach! Too bad I couldn't get a local doc or two to travel with me on my daily rounds, as I run into people every day who are in need of at least some medical care yet won't go to the hospital either because they hate them or because they "can't afford to fill" the scripts they might receive once they've received treatment.

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