Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center on Friday settled allegations that it left a paraplegic man crawling around downtown Los Angeles' skid row in a hospital gown and with a colostomy bag by agreeing to pay $1 million and be monitored by a former U.S. attorney for up to five years. The resolution of the lawsuit marks the biggest settlement so far in the Los Angeles city attorney's efforts to crack down on hospitals and other institutions that "dump" patients on skid row.

A paraplegic man wearing a soiled hospital gown and a broken colostomy bag was found crawling in a gutter in skid row in Los Angeles on Thursday after allegedly being dumped in the street by a Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center van, police said. The incident, witnessed by more than two dozen people, was described by police as a particularly outrageous case of "homeless dumping" that has plagued the downtown area. "I can't think of anything colder than that," said LAPD Det.

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, accused by authorities in at least two incidents of dumping homeless patients, said Friday that its own preliminary investigation into why a hospital-hired van left a paraplegic man on a skid row street this week found that the actions were not in keeping with hospital policy.

The Los Angeles city attorney's office is investigating whether a Hollywood hospital violated multiple laws when it attempted to leave a paraplegic man on a gurney at the Midnight Mission -- hours before he was left in a skid row gutter, officials said Monday. A video, filmed by security cameras at the Midnight Mission early Thursday, shows two workers from Hollywood Presbyterian arriving by ambulance and trying to wheel the man, who is strapped down to the gurney, into the mission courtyard.

The Los Angeles city attorney Wednesday lambasted Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, saying it was deliberately blocking the release of medical records from a paraplegic man who was allegedly "dumped" last week in a skid row gutter. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo said in a statement that a prosecutor had met with the victim, obtained his written consent for the release of records and forwarded the document to the hospital.

A hospital under investigation for leaving a paraplegic man on skid row last week has released his medical records, the city attorney said Thursday. "These records will serve as an essential tool in our efforts to investigate this recent and shocking instance of homeless dumping," City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo said. The handover came a day after Delgadillo accused Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center of "stonewalling" the probe.

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, accused of dumping a homeless paraplegic patient on a skid row street, announced Friday that it would adopt the same discharge rules for the homeless as Kaiser Permanente agreed to this week to resolve criminal charges and lawsuits by the Los Angeles city attorney. Kaiser's settlement with the city attorney requires that it establish new discharge protocols for homeless patients and provide more training for employees, and calls for monitoring by retired U.

Prosecutors filed civil complaints on Tuesday accusing two hospitals and a transportation services firm of dumping homeless patients in downtown Los Angeles, including one highly publicized case in which a paraplegic man wearing a colostomy bag was found crawling in a gutter near a skid row park in February. The complaints by the L.A.

A city Fire Department ambulance was stolen Wednesday afternoon from Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, and a man was arrested several hours later after driving 200 miles to Paso Robles, authorities said. The man was arrested by California Highway Patrol officers on U.S. 101 around 8 p.m. Authorities said he would be brought back to Los Angeles to be booked on suspicion of grand theft auto.

Albert L. Greene, 59, president and chief executive of Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys since 2006, died Thursday at his home in Calabasas. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June, the hospital announced. Greene, who had a reputation for reviving financially ailing medical centers, was the third chief executive of the hospital founded in 1958. Under Greene's supervision, Valley Presbyterian reportedly went from a $7.8-million deficit in 2006 to a $625,000 surplus the next year.