Los Angeles City Attorney Files Lawsuit against Hawaiian Gardens Hospital

A 38-year-old woman, who suffered from schizophrenia, asthma, diabetes and other illnesses, was found behind a dumpster last September.

Officials said that the woman was wearing a paper hospital top and bottoms when she was first found. They told that ants and other insects were climbing on her. She was disoriented and was sitting in her own waste, they added.

The woman was allegedly dropped off on Skid Row after being discharged from a Hawaiian Gardens hospital, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said Wednesday. He accused Hawaiian Gardens hospital for allegedly dropping off the woman in dumpster.

Feuer said that it is an ongoing problem in Los Angeles and this was the reason why he announced that he was filing an injunction against the Gardens Regional Medical Center.

He told that his investigators are looking deeper into allegations that the hospital dumped the woman.

Feuer during a news conference said, "We're continuing to do everything we can to stop it. Every patient, regardless of housing status, deserves to be treated with dignity and respect when he or she is discharged".

The lawsuit filed alleges that just before noon on Sept. 4, 2014, the woman with mental and physical health problems was dumped in front of the Union Rescue Mission on Los Angeles' Skid Row from a hospital van with the name of Tri-City Regional Medical Center.

The women when found had no money, identification or medication, and even no arrangement for her shelter was even made, says Feuer's lawsuit.

She wandered around Skid Row and was briefly housed at the Midnight Mission, then left on her own. She was found three days later by her sister, sitting near a dumpster, disoriented and upset.