North Brevard County Hospital District v. Brevard County Board of County Commissioners

North Brevard Hospital, d/b/a Parrish Medical Center, (“Parrish”), appeals a judgment determining that Horace Mitchell’s medical bills in the amount of $56,254.84, for a sixteen-day stay at Parrish, were not the responsibility of the Bre-vard County Board of County Commissioners, (“Brevard County”), because Mitchell was a furloughed prisoner during the medical stay and not an inmate of the Brevard County Jail.

Mitchell was serving a sentence in the Brevard County Jail for possession, sale and delivery of cocaine and retail theft when he became ill and required medical treatment. The Brevard…