Legal Opinion
Cospito v. Heckler
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 10, 1984No. Nos. 83-5201, 83-5202PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Douglas Cospito, et al., (“the Patients”) are or have been patients at the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital (“TPH”). In 1975, TPH lost its accreditation from codefendant Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (“JCAH”). As a result, codefendant Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services) terminated various federal benefits which were conditioned upon the beneficiaries being treated at a qualified psychiatric hospital. Those benefits were denied until TPH reacquired its…
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