A writer for the healthcare outlet, Health Exec, speculated the detail about \u201cidentification\u201d likely meant the woman lacked paperwork which might be complicating her departure.<\/p>\n
\u201cOften hospitals will require documentation to set up transportation or other services for a patient,\u201d said Chad Van Alstin.<\/p>\n
While the woman remained living in the room the hospital had been forced to spend money and direct staff to help her because of her \u201ccontinued presence\u201d.<\/p>\n
A month after the woman was discharged the hospital gave her one written notice to leave, threatening legal action if she stayed, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cTMH has limited inpatient beds,\u201d it continued. \u201cThe defendant\u2019s continued occupancy prevents use of the bed for patients needing acute care.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former patient did not respond to the Tallahassee Democrat\u2018s request for a comment.<\/p>\n
US News and World Report said the patient had no attorney listed and was representing herself. The phone numbers listed online for the patient were disconnected, and no one answered when a call was put through to her room at the hospital.<\/p>\n
A hearing was due at the end of the month.<\/p>\n
The hospital declined to comment on the case when approached by the Tallahassee Democrat.<\/p>\n
\u201cTMH is not able to discuss active legal matters, including background details,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A writer for the healthcare outlet, Health Exec, speculated the detail about \u201cidentification\u201d likely meant the woman lacked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[74,10632,127,43941,15969,1342,2147,2082,2740,134,527,5838,2241,12514,19133,3234,111,139,69,1597,34600,14447,16784,133650,61,1299],"class_list":["post-336624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-after","tag-courts","tag-despite","tag-discharge","tag-discharged","tag-five","tag-florida","tag-for","tag-former","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-help","tag-hospital","tag-leave","tag-looking","tag-months","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-patient","tag-refused","tag-refuses","tag-room","tag-sues","tag-to","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}