The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services sought the public’s help Thursday in identifying a patient hospitalized at one of its facilities after being found last week in the high desert.
The man, who appears to be in his early 30s, has been at Los Angeles General Medical Center in Boyle Heights since Saturday after being found along Big Rock Creek Road in Valyermo, in the Antelope Valley southeast of Palmdale.
He was described as 5-feet, 1-inch tall, 123 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information regarding the patient was urged to call Clinical Social Worker Jonathan Evanculla at 323-409-3859, the Los Angeles Medical Center Department of Social Work at 323-409-5253 or after-hours at 323-409-6883 and on weekends at 323-409-5254.