In re Pelletier

In this petition for certiorari, the petitioner, Yvonne Pelletier, challenges the division of welfare’s denial of her application for medicaid. We grant the petition and remand.

The record reveals that Mrs. Pelletier is an 81-year-old, childless widow. She entered the Dover House Healthcare nursing home, an intermediate care facility (ICF), in June 1977, as a private pay patient. She was placed in that facility on the recommendation of her treating physician following her hospitalization at the Went-worth-Douglas Hospital in Dover. In May 1983, after spending in excess of $60,000 for six years…