Paraplegic allegedly 'dumped' on L.A.'s skid row

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They are questioning officials from the hospital, which the LAPD had accused in an earlier dumping case that is now under investigation.

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A paraplegic man wearing a soiled hospital gown and a broken colostomy bag was found crawling in a gutter in skid row in Los Angeles on Thursday after allegedly being dumped in the street by a Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center van, police said.

The incident, witnessed by more than two dozen people, was described by police as a particularly outrageous case of "homeless dumping" that has plagued the downtown area.

"I can't think of anything colder than that," said LAPD Det. Russ Long, who called the case the most egregious of its kind that he has seen in his career. "There was no mission around, no services. It's the worst area of skid row."

Los Angeles Police Department detectives said they connected the van to Hollywood Presbyterian after witnesses wrote down a phone number on the van and took down its license-plate number.

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Facility Becomes the First Korean-Owned Hospital in the United States (2005)

CHA Medical Group Acquires Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center; Facility Becomes the First Korean-Owned Hospital in the United States
Business Wire, Jan 3, 2005

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- CHA Medical Group today announced that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to purchase Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center from a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC). The transaction officially closed on December 31, 2004.

The addition of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center to the CHA Medical Group family increases to five the number of hospitals owned and operated by the group. The CHA Medical Group, under .. Kwang Yul Cha, M.D., already owns and operates four acute care hospitals with approximately 2,000 beds, two specialty clinics for Oriental medicine, a medical university and a cell and gene therapy research institute, all in Korea. In addition, Dr. Cha owns and operates two infertility medical centers in the United States and Korea, including the CHA Fertility

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