A Jamaican man can proceed with a lawsuit alleging a Maine hospital violated federal emergency medical care law by discharging him without stabilizing his condition despite a 12-day inpatient stay.
Admitting a patient with an emergency medical condition to the hospital doesn’t automatically satisfy its federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act obligation not to discharge or transfer a patient until they’re stabilized, the US District Court for the District of Maine said Monday.
Judge Stacey D. Neumann denied the hospital’s motion to dismiss the suit, saying “EMTALA’s plain text does not support a bright-line rule absolving a hospital of ...
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