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B.A.A. v. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS

No. 87-191.

421 N.W.2d 118 (1988)

B.A.A., Appellee, v. CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 16, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Patrick White, Co. Atty., and Anne M. Lahey, Asst. Co. Atty., for appellant.

David H. Goldman and John G. Black of Black, Reimer & Goldman, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, LAVORATO, and SNELL, JJ.

LAVORATO, Justice.

This appeal presents us with the issue of whether a psychiatric patient may be forced to continue in involuntary commitment when the patient is no longer as "seriously mentally impaired" as the Iowa Code requires for the initial commitment.1

The chief medical officer of the University of Iowa Hospitals argues that once a patient has been involuntarily committed because of a serious mental impairment, a lesser...

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