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Patient Dumping

The practice of transferring or refusing emergency care to indigent patients, often without stabilizing care, and its impact on public hospitals and minorities.

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What were the major patient dumping cases that motivated Congress to pass EMTALA in 1986?

enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act () in 1986 largely in response to systematic, well‑documented “” practices—not a single headline case but a wave of transfers and refusals ...