Legal Opinion
Cruz-Queipo v. Hospital Español Auxilio Mutuo De Puerto Rico
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 27, 2005No. 04-2375PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case tests the scope of hospital liability under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTA-LA), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd. EMTALA requires a hospital to even-handedly administer an appropriate screening procedure to all emergency room patients and, if it determines that an emergency medical condition exists, to stabilize the patient’s condition before discharge or transfer to another hospital. See id. Asserting that Hospital Español Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico (Auxilio Mutuo) did not comply with its own protocol in screening Edgardo Cruz-Queipo (Cruz) and…
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