In re T.J.

OPINION

CAPPY, Justice.

The issue with which we are presented in this matter is whether the Philadelphia County Office of Mental Health/Mental Retardation (“MH/MR”) had standing to contest a mental health hearing officer’s decision to discharge a mental patient from involuntary commitment. We hold that MH7MR does have standing, and therefore reverse the Superior Court’s order quashing MH/MR’s appeal.

*480Sometime in the fall of 1996, T.J. began exhibiting bizarre behavior. T.J. would enter convenience stores and take food out of the stores for which she had not paid, claiming that Christ had told…