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Calif. to go after Las Vegas hospital over patient-dumping

Rawson-Neal bused about 150 patients to the Greyhound bus station near Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the past five years, far more than were sent to any other city

By Philip Reese and Cynthia Hubert
Sacramento Bee

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Years before a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital bused a homeless, schizophrenic man to Sacramento without arranging contacts or a plan for care, a different hospital ditched Gabino Olvera on Skid Row in Los Angeles.

Olvera, homeless and paraplegic, still dressed in his hospital gown and connected to a catheter bag, was found dragging himself along a gutter in 2007.

The case and others like it motivated the city of Los Angeles to adopt one of the toughest “patient-dumping” laws in the nation.

Full story: L.A. poised to go after Las Vegas hospital in patient-dumping cases