When a hospital discharge puts vulnerable patients in danger in Miami
Reporter Carol Marbin Miller’s recent Miami Herald investigation into Calvinelle South raises a question that goes well beyond one troubled Miami assisted living facility: What should hospitals know about the places where they send vulnerable patients? According to the Herald, Jackson Health System patients continued to be placed at Calvinelle South after resident Billy Ray Corbin suffered a deadly fall and Florida regulators began documenting serious problems there. Patients were still sent to the assisted living facility after the state sought to revoke its license.
