Patient Must Be Found To Be Incapacitated Before Transfer Of Care Is Ordered

(May 14, 2018, 11:19 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A probate judge can order a hospital patient to be transferred to a skilled nursing facility for treatment only if the patient is found to be an incapacitated person in need of a guardian and if admission to a skilled nursing facility is deemed to be in the incapacitated person’s best interest, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said May 11 (Guardianship of D.C., No. SJC-12390, Mass. Sup., 2018 Mass. LEXIS 330)....

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