(KNX 1070) - A Long Beach hospital is defending its discharge of an 84-year-old woman with dementia who was allegedly dumped outside a locked Alzheimer's facility in the middle of the night.
College Medical Center in Long Beach, says it followed all of the proper discharge procedures and it was the patient herself who insisted on taking a taxi back to the facility where she lived.
Tuesday, a woman leveled accusations of patient dumping against the hospital, claiming her elderly mother, who suffers from dementia, was left outside the locked care facility in the middle of the night.
Costanza Genoese Zerbi filed a complaint against College Medical Center with the California Department of Public Health on behalf of her mother, Savina Genoese Zerbi. She says the elderly woman was placed in a cab after treatment at College Medical Center, and then dropped outside the Regency Palms, where she is a resident.
Security video shows Savina Genoese Zerbi, wearing a bathrobe and sandals while clutching a large envelope, attempting to open the front door to Regency Palms on East Eighth Street in Long Beach at 2:17 a.m. Jan. 13.
KNX has reached out to College Medical Center for comment, but have not heard back.
