State to probe HUMC in patient ‘dumping’ case.

Byline: Mary Jo Layton
Source: Record (Hackensack, NJ)

Dec. 22–The state health department is investigating Hackensack University Medical Center for allegedly discharging a blind paraplegic patient before he was well enough to leave.

The case involved a 58-year-old man from Ecuador with no health insurance who underwent lifesaving surgery in June and remained at the hospital for more than three months until Hackensack obtained a court order to discharge him.

Gustavo Segovia was dropped off by an ambulance at a vacant apartment in Little Ferry with no medical equipment, feverish, in respiratory distress and with advanced bed sores. Two hours later, he was so ill, he was taken by ambulance..More Here