In re Chiumento

KELLY, Judge:

In this appeal, we are called upon to determine whether the specific due process protections provided to a person under the Mental Health Procedures Act1 have been abrogated where that person had been admitted to a hospital for involuntary emergency psychiatric examination and treatment pursuant to 50 P.S. § 7302 and where certification for extended involuntary emergency treatment, pursuant to 50 P.S. § 7303, was not filed, nor was the person discharged, within one hundred, twenty hours of the original admission for psychiatric examination and treatment. Because the specific…