National Bank v. Department of Social Services

*350R. J. Danhof, J.

Respondent, Department of Social Services,1 appeals by leave granted from a circuit court order reversing in part a Department of Social Services Bureau of Administrative Hearings determination that Mary Gretchen Conrad (hereafter petitioner) was ineligible to receive Medicaid benefits. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

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Petitioner was injured and rendered comatose on December 16, 1986, because of alleged medical malpractice. She was in her early twenties at the time and resided in a nursing home in Michigan until her death in January 1998.2

Petitioner’s father…