In Re Peterson

KRAMER, Associate Judge:

Appellant Elijah Peterson admitted himself as a voluntary inpatient at the Washington Hospital Center (“WHC”). After he requested a discharge, he was transferred to St. Elizabeths Hospital as an emergency, involuntary patient. Judge Linda Davis denied Peterson’s motion to dismiss an application for an emergency seven-day hospitalization. In this appeal, Peterson argues that the transfer to St. Elizabeths as an involuntary inpatient violated his rights under The Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act, known as the Ervin Act, D.C.Code §§ 21-501 to -592 (2001). We affirm.