Rueda v. Charmaine D.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mary Ann BriganttiHughes, J.), entered June 11, 2009, which, to the extent ap*444pealed from, granted the petition to retain respondent at the Montefiore facility, affirmed, without costs.

Although respondent’s release from the hospital has rendered this appeal moot as to her, we address the merits pursuant to the exception to the mootness doctrine for issues likely to recur (see Mental Hygiene Legal Servs. v Ford, 92 NY2d 500, 505-506 [1998]).

The main issue before us is whether the emergency room psychiatrist who treated respondent properly made an application…