Advantage Behavioral Health Systems v. Eric Cleveland, as Administrator of the Estate of Nicholas Cleveland

Miller, Presiding Judge.

Upon being discharged from a mental health care facility operated by Advantage *765 Behavioral Health Systems ("Advantage"), Nicholas Cleveland committed suicide. Cleveland's parents then filed this negligence and wrongful death action against Advantage, and Advantage filed a motion for a protective order, seeking to have portions of its records on Cleveland declared privileged. The trial court issued an order ruling that only some of the records were privileged and that Advantage lacked standing to assert the mental health privilege to exclude otherwise relevant evidence…