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Reluctant caregivers want the hospital to find a ‘safe discharge’ that doesn’t include them. I recently wrote “Hospitals are not going to do all the work to decide on the ‘best’ alternative. There are many care options, and they vary depending the number of facilities of different types in the area, the finances available, and the health issues involved. Not to mention the preferences of the patient and the family. That’s probably why Hospital social workers do their best to send the patient home to family”.

But what about homeless people who are injured under a bridge and taken to hospital by the police. Where do they go on discharge? What is the a fall-back option for them? Would it apply to those whose family refuse to accept an ‘unsafe discharge’?

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Some hospitals in my state have nursing homes attached to or owned by the hospitals. This makes placement far easier. I remember hearing of a patient that was transferred to a different floor when discharged because that was the nursing home floor. I had not heard of that before then, but was assured it was not rehab, but long term care. My mom was on a waitlist of a nursing home that shares the same campus as a county hospital. It was very small and rarely had openings, but it's in a low population, rural county, so that makes sense.
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We had one woman who lived in our homeless shelter while she was getting cancer treatments. I think she was from south Florida and our local hospital is the best in the state. I cook once a month there and usually it is new residents every month but this woman lived in our local homeless shelter getting treatments for at least 5-6 months. She was always bandaged up from treatments.
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