Garcia v. Montefiore Medical Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Stanley Green, J.), entered September 6, 2000, which granted the motions of defendants Montefiore Medical Center, City of New York and New York City Department of Correction for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against them, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The record discloses no triable issue as to whether defendants-respondents’ failure to discharge plaintiffs decedent from prison, where she had received psychiatric treatment, pursuant to a written discharge plan (see, Mental Hygiene Law § 29.15 [h]), proximately caused her the harm…
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