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Brother is 58 years old. He’s in hospital due to a spinal abscess. He’s currently on antibiotics to treat it. He will need rehab as his hands and feet are weak due to the abscess pressing on his spine. The problems is he doesn’t a have wife or kids… no family members that can take him in. He doesn’t have insurance so rehab is only available for 2 weeks.  After that they will have to discharge him but he doesn’t have a place to go to. What can they (hospital) or he can do?

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I agree with others that he needs to contact social services for his county. If he's employed, or was employed, he may need to apply for disability as well.
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Your questions need not to come to a Forum of strangers but to do directly now to social services. They should have been reaching out for you from day one in hospital both to get your brother on some insurance and to also get him what care for the indigent can be found. Go now to social services whether hospital or rehab and begin to tell them the truth of his life. You need to be ready to submit his bank accounts and etc. This is something that is going to have to go through a lot of social services help. I wish you the best of luck.
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You or your brother are going to have to let the rehab center know upfront that he will be an "unsafe discharge" until he is strong enough to take care of himself as he has no family that is willing or able to take him in or care for him.
As long as you both continuously use the words "unsafe discharge" the rehab center will then have to find placement for him in the appropriate facility and Medicaid will have to applied for.
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