Ohio's nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

[littlemissmartypants]

By JAKE ZUCKERMAN/Signal Ohio
Updated 2:28 PM EDT, April 17, 2026

The scene was concerning enough to prompt the homeless shelter staff to call the fire department.

A woman using a walker had shown up, incontinent and carrying “a large bag of medications.” She was diabetic, managing a tibia fracture and alcohol-related dementia, and she was “dumped” at the shelter, according to federal inspectors.
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The incident was what industry experts described as a rare but increasingly common instance of a nursing home in Ohio transferring its patients – who are often older, poorer and medically fragile – to a homeless shelter.

CMS has faulted Eastland and six others in the past few years related to efforts to discharge patients to homeless shelters, most of which were ultimately carried out.
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https://apnews.com/article/ohio-nursing-home-patients-homeless-shelters-9c000eeddc9c9411f44fd605fafc6771

[sheshe2]

1. WTF!

I am sorry, I just don't have any words left in me.

[Attilatheblond]

2. People without disposable income

have become disposable people in Trump's Billionaires Only America

[SheltieLover]

3. I wonder who owns that nursing home. Pukes, by chance?

[chouchou]

4. OMG! I can imagine that Nordic countries are repulsed even worse then DU people..

This is Trump's Nation

[BurnDoubt]

5. Shouldn't let them go to waste.

I once challenged my Republican Congressman John Doolittle that I would vote for him if he read Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal” into the Congressional Record.
His Aide had never heard of it.
(Spoiler alert: He Didn’t, and I Didn’t.)
I think he was also the one who told me only a small minority worked for Minimum Wage, and they didn’t “need to work” because they were kids, working for “fun money”.

[Skittles]

6. the "pro-life Christian" party will be fine with this

yes indeed

[JMCKUSICK]

7. You just can't make this up! WTH

[NBachers]

8. May they live 1 million lives that start at this point and end dying alone in an alley.

[appalachiablue]

9. Tragic. Neglected and discarded, how bad can it get. Thanks for posting.

Aren't many nursing homes owned by PE, Private Equity investors.

[enid602]

10. Medicaid

I think the reason the nursing homes are dumping patients might well be caused by the trillion dollar reduction in Medicaid in Trump’s big disgusting bill. Medicaid has traditionally paid for people in nursing homes once their assets were depleted.

[appalachiablue]

12. Yes that's the sad situation. Thanks for posting.

[Karma13612]

11. So they're moving

80 year old people who are in dementia or just old and frail to homeless shelters when their money runs out?

Edited: It SEEMS like this is more for people in rehab and expected to be discharged at some stage. They are not talking about people who are in their late stages of life getting ready to pass on.

I’m not saying they are justified or blameless, but I THOUGHT they were kicking gramma out of her final living space.