Due to their frailty or weakness, patients in at least 2 DSH facilities are often abandoned and unable to navigate to their destinations because staff refuse to push them in their wheelchairs. They must rely exclusively on patients to push them or they do not go anywhere;
DSH refuses to allow handicapped or physically challenged patients to have electric wheelchairs, even if they pay for them. Efforts by Disability Rights California to change this policy two or three years ago were completely unsuccessful and were abandoned.