Is Shasta Regional Medical Center Illegally Dumping Patients Out Into Redding Streets?

 

“And the king shall answer, and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these, My brothers, you have done it to Me 

Pulling up to Corbett's restaurant parking lot for breakfast I see what looks like a vision of some macabre drive-in movie out of my front window some 15 feet away.

A suffering soul who, when I finished my breakfast, was still there.

As I drove away, a "nagging urge" kept telling me this man needed help and looked like an obvious case of hospital patient dumping.

Hospital name tag wrist band, hospital socks, band aid from blood drawn, hospital pants pulled down, ankle bandage with date and writing, etc...

Little did I know until he opened his sweatshirt...To my horror...

To contain your horrors, I will not show his emaciated eyes and face. 

And since I do not own a cell phone I had to go to my residence to report this to an agency I thought would matter.

Whoever answered the Hill Country Crisis line, ( A service being run under a contract with the Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency) would not identify themselves as such.

I asked  is this Hill Country Crisis line? 

No answer...

Several times I asked are you the green van who goes around to help homeless folks with issues?

No answer...

Then the guy says my name, (which I have a blocked number), and asked if I talked to him.

I said are you coming or not?

No answer...

This now seems to make sense as to who answered the phone ...From a Record Searchlight article. "Also on board is a peer specialist — someone who has overcome a mental health challenge themselves and been trained to help others who are now in a crisis situation."

All this recorded to be sure.

So I drive back down to his location to talk to him, and document, expecting no one to respond.

There was a little red Hill Country Clinic car with two individuals, one a very rude woman.

The woman from Hill Country "outreach" was furious that I was taking pictures and several times she said to me "You know , everybody hates you."

My pictures went to Adult Protective Services, and all Shasta County Supervisors including Kevin Crye, which I believe this crime happened in the district he represents.

I find that kind of "seed planting" demonic designed to create worry and fear in a weak person, and wonder if she uses it on patients during her emergency street visits on homeless crisis calls.

This is where I find his shirt wide open...To my horror...

Is anybody interested in going over to Corbett's restaurant on Pine St in Downtown Redding and asking how many of the hospitals homeless they see dumped sleeping in and around their property?

"Happens all the time."

I cannot in in good conscience let this man die, who could barely talk let alone get out of that parking lot and wheel 20 feet to the shade in 100 degrees plus approaching afternoon, defecating and urinating himself on the sidewalk of downtown Redding Pine St. 

Is there nowhere this man can lay his head down in a pillow these last minutes of his life?

Is a human being not worthy in this pitiful condition to die out of the deadly heat and sun, with a roof over his head and air-conditioned comfort?

Is there a place where man can have a source of cool liquids to drink to ease his torment? Ice chips if conditions necessary?

Is there not a place where a homeless soul can pass from this life to the next with dignity and grace?

Hospital Discharge Bag on Chair - Remembering Marcus 

If you witness events such as these, please contact Shasta County Adult Protective Services Hotline at 530-225-5798 

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