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The hospital has repeatedly made efforts to coordinate her departure with family members and offered transportation to obtain necessary identification, the lawsuit said.

That part says plenty to me. They haven't actually established that she has anywhere to go. One thing I don't miss about Taxi and Rideshare driving: transporting people directly from ERs to homeless shelters. I've had hospitals try to get me to pickup people wearing nothing but hospital gowns, no possessions, rolled out in a wheel-chair the hospital was keeping and requiring someone to physically load them into the vehicle.

Saving the sly retrieval of the hospital's bedpan for last was a nice touch on their part - no healthcare "professional" should be so smooth at all this, and comfortable with it, as these people are.

Mind you, in my state, any form of physical contact between hired driver and passenger is illegal outside of dedicated medical transportation services - I COULD NOT LEGALLY help them leave the vehicle. I thank God I drove Taxi for the year before Uber and Lyft came to my town so that I had the time to learn this stuff, and I was stupid-sad the day it became clear that Ride-share was going to be no better about it than the Taxi service.

Actually, greedy-ass Uber and Lyft are worse for doing fuck-all to be sure that drivers know the laws on it in advance. I am amazed I've never heard of them and the health-insurance companies being sued into oblivion over the lack of due-diligence alone. I used to literally dream of being put on the stand to testify against them -not nightmares, dreams.

Shudder to think of the situations I and these patients could have been stuck in if I didn't call-ahead to the destinations to make sure there was someone there to help un-load, nevermind the times I either refused the ride on patient-safety grounds or drove them to another ER by (obviously valid)request. A few times I was able to convince a nicer shelter to take certain individuals in, but mostly I just felt powerless along with these victims.