DeKalb County Welfare Board v. Lower

GARRARD, Judge.

This case arises from the trial court’s decision that the DeKalb County Welfare Board (Welfare Board) improperly withheld hospitalization benefits from Vincent A. Lower (Lower).

At the time of his hospitalization Lower was twenty-seven years old, unemployed, and without financial resources. He was apparently also in ill health. On April 15, 1978 Lower was admitted to Parkview Memorial Hospital on an elective, non-emergency basis by Dr. G.M. Maldia for a “complete diagnostic work up” to determine the cause of pain in Lower’s lumbro-sacral region. After numerous laboratory tests…