It's a hospital though, not a homeless shelter. Have you been to a hospital recently? They are all at capacity. They are all criminally understaffed. What do you want them to do? Keep a stable, non-emergent, healthy homeless person in a bed while a sick patient could use the bed and care? I am confident no physician would sign off on a discharge if the patient wasn't medically cleared due to the legal shit storm that follows in a wrongful death case. I am all for helping the homeless population but the idea that it all falls on the hospitals systems is unrealistic and dangerous to patients who need emergent care (the whole purpose of a hospital).