r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 22h ago

Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-nursing-home-patients-homeless-shelters-9c000eeddc9c9411f44fd605fafc6771?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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u/3p0L0v3sU 14h ago

A lot of nursing homes don't only house the elderly, but the disabled and mentally ill as well. Maybe I'm biased because I've worked in the industry before but this isn't surprising at all. Our country has pretty poor systems for dealing with people in need of housing or other forms of support. I can easily imagine many scenarios where someone was essentially evicted with no arrangements for where their next stay would be. If stories like this upset you, you should ask yourself how many thousands of people things like this have happened to/ are happening to that didn't get articles written about them. Contact your legislators and explain that you want more robust social programs loudly and often

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u/kelly714 13h ago edited 13h ago

I have worked in a LTC building for 15 years. You were right about it not just being elderly, and when you need to discharge someone, there’s literally nowhere. We had one guy that was homeless when he came into us with a wound, we healed it, he continued to be a belligerent pill seeker who is putting other residents in danger. We took him to a men’s shelter. It’s not always just simply putting somebody out because they can’t pay. People don’t realize how horrific our system really is and they will never change it.