Matter of Beverly F.

In a proceeding for permission to administer a course of electroconvulsive therapy to a patient over the patient’s objection, the patient appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (McDonald, J.), dated December 6, 2016, which, after a hearing, granted the petition.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The State may administer a course of medical treatment against a patient’s will if it establishes, by clear and convincing evidence, that the patient lacks “the capacity to make a reasoned decision with respect to proposed treatment,” and that “the…