Legal Question in Legal Malpractice in Illinois

Since there is no single payer health insurance in the United States, the only obligation a hospital has under the law is to provide health and treatment on an emergency basis. Once the emergency has passed and the patient is stable (the very minimum standard of that definition is used) then, unless there is insurance or a guarantor who accepts responsibility for the payment of further care, the hospital has no obligation to provide any further care. Many hospitals simply let patients, who often are not experiencing an emergency need but by no means can they be qualified as well and aware, simply put the patients on the streets to fend for themselves. Many, put the patients in a cab who then takes the patient to the skid row and let him/her loose.

From the sound of it, your father lacks health insurance and so the hospital, after having provided the initial emergency care and having stabilized him, are under no further obligation to provide any further care. At least, they took him home and not simply let him loose on the streets which they could have done.

You may want to contact social services in the county hospital in the city he is leaving... without health insurance, not much anyone can do. I hope this helps at least a little....