WATCH: Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert Skewers Iowa Hospital for 'Deporting' Comatose Immigrant Patients

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An Iowa hospital came to the attention of Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, for all the wrong reasons.

"A hospital is no place to be sick, especially if you are an undocumented worker in Iowa," Colbert said during a segment called "The Word."

The satirical comedian skewered Iowa Methodist Medical Center, which has a location in West Des Moines, following a news report that the Des Moines hospital sent the two undocumented patients, who were seriously injured in a car wreck in rural Iowa, in a private jet back to Mexico.

A news segment Colbert played stated, "Iowa Methodist Medical Center effectively deported two comatose patients with no government involvement."

"This process is called medical repatriation," Colbert said. "It is the perfect answer. It is unregulated, so hospitals avoid all the red tape that usually is involved in shipping he unconscious."

Colbert said that patients were just transferred to the "we don't care unit."