Cruz-Vázquez v. Mennonite General Hospital, Inc.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns whether the district court erred in dismissing a disparate screening claim under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (“EMTALA”), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd. After carefully reviewing the record, we vacate the district court’s dismissal and remand for further proceedings.

I. Background

A. Factual Background

1. Cruz-Vázquez’s Medical Treatment

At around 10:15 p.m. on January 4, 2007, Plaintiff-Appellant Hazel Cruz-Vázquez (“Cruz-Vázquez”), then in her third trimester of her first pregnancy, arrived at the emergency room of Defendant-Appellee…