In Re Commitment of Hutchinson

OPINION

McDERMOTT, Justice.

This is an appeal by appellant, Schuylkill County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Program, from a Superior Court order reversing the decision of the Schuylkill County Court of Common Pleas, by which appellee, Donna Hutchinson, was involuntarily committed to Wernersville State Hospital for a period of ninety days for psychiatric treatment under Section 304 of the Mental Health Procedures Act (hereinafter “MHPA”).1

The facts revealed by the record are as follows. Appellee’s grandmother petitioned under Section 304 of the MHPA for an emergency examination of…