In Re Appeal of O'Boyle

OPINION

GORDON W. SHUMAKER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a district court order affirming a decision of the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), which affirmed the Washington County Community Services’ finding that appellant neglected her mother, a vulnerable adult. The DHS determined that appellant’s mother was a vulnerable adult and that appellant, as her mother’s caregiver, committed maltreatment through neglect by failing to obtain medical services for her mother’s injuries.

Although substantial evidence supports the DHS’s determinations that appellant’s mother…