TRIVETTE v. NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSP.

No. 448A98.

512 S.E.2d 425 (1999)

350 N.C. 299

Elmer TRIVETTE and Nancy Trivette, as Co-Administrators of the late Randy James Trivette, and Nancy Trivette, Individually, v. NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITAL, INC.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

April 9, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moore & Brown, by B. Ervin Brown II and James S. Gibbs, Jr., Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellants.

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, by J. Robert Elster and Richard S. Gottlieb, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellee.


PER CURIAM.

We affirm the Court of Appeals' majority opinion as to the issue of whether there was an appropriate medical screening examination as required by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd (1994). Also, we allowed petition for discretionary review as to the additional issue of whether there was a discharge of the patient before stabilization of the medical condition as required by the Emergency Medical Treatment...

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