DADE COUNTY v. AMERICAN HOSP. OF MIAMI, INC.

No. 83-1445.

463 So.2d 232 (1984)

DADE COUNTY, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida, and Public Health Trust of Dade County, Florida, an Agency and Instrumentality of Dade County, Florida, Appellants, v. AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF MIAMI, INC., a Florida Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, Dade County Atty., and Robert L. Blake, Asst. County Atty., for appellants.

Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler and Paul Curran, New York City, for appellee.

Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook and Jerold I. Budney, Miami, for City of Homestead as amicus curiae.

Before BARKDULL, HUBBART and JORGENSON, JJ.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 26, 1985.

JORGENSON, Judge.

Dade County appeals a partial summary declaratory judgment wherein the trial court found that Dade County bears a legal and financial duty to provide post-emergency care to indigent residents of Dade County and to accept promptly from American Hospital such patients once their emergency medical condition has been stabilized.1

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