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PATIENTS OF PHILA. S. H. v. D. P. W. ET AL.

No. 1513 C.D. 1978.

53 Pa.Commw. 126 (1980)

Patients of Philadelphia State Hospital, Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare and Aldo Colautti, Secretary of Welfare, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

July 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judy Greenwood, for petitioners.

John A. Kane, Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.

Argued September 10, 1979, before Judges BLATT, DISALLE and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three. Reargued June 3, 1980, before President Judge CRUMLISH and Judges MENCER, ROGERS, BLATT, CRAIG, MacPHAIL and WILLIAMS, JR. Judge WILKINSON, JR. did not participate.

OPINION,1 July 21, 1980:

This case comes before us by way of a petition for review of a refusal by the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) to grant petitioners, who are patients in the Philadelphia State Hospital (Hospital), access to an evaluation of the Hospital compiled by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH). After initial argument of the case to a panel of this court, we ordered reargument before the court en banc...

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