MATTER OF INVOLUNTARY DISCHARGE OF J.S.

No. C6-93-1718.

512 N.W.2d 604 (1994)

In the Matter of the INVOLUNTARY DISCHARGE OR TRANSFER OF J.S. BY Ebenezer HALL.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

March 1, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark S. Larson, Peter D. Magnuson, Messerli & Kramer, Minneapolis, for relator Ebenezer Hall.

Laurie Hanson, Laurie N. Davison, Law Offices of the Legal Aid Soc. of Minneapolis, Inc., Minneapolis, for respondent J.S.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Maria C. Christu, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondent Minnesota Com'r of Health.

Considered and decided by AMUNDSON, P.J., and SCHUMACHER and FLEMING, JJ.


OPINION

AMUNDSON, Judge.

A nursing care facility challenges the Commissioner of Health's decision that it cannot involuntarily transfer or discharge a resident. We affirm.

FACTS

Respondent J.S. is a 74-year-old woman with a history of mental illness dating back to the 1940s. She has been diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia, paranoid type.1 J.S.'s immediate family is limited to two elderly brothers who are unwilling...

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