Leonard v. Latrobe Area Hospital

BECK, Judge:

The issue is whether a party in a negligence action can discover from the hospital those patient records protected by the confidentiality provision of the Mental Health Procedures Act, 1 where the hospital has transferred those records to its attorney and insurance carrier, who are non-parties to the suit.

Appellants, a hospital and a psychiatrist, appeal from an interlocutory order of the trial court directing them to supply the appellees with the medical records of a patient, a non-party to the suit. 2 The order of the trial court directs the hospital to supply those records…