Whether a hospital's obligation under EMTALA ends when the patient is admitted or requires full stabilization before release

Whether a hospit al’s obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (“EMTALA”) ends when the patient is admitted to the hospital, as the Ninth Circuit held here, or even if the hospital properly admitted the patient, it may not release a patient with an emergency medical con dition without first deter mining that the patient has actually stabilized, as at least two other Circuits have held. ii LIST OF PROCEEDINGS U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit No. 23-55412 Randal Jerome Dalavai, Successor in Inter est to ‘Decedent’ Geetha Dalavai and Son of Geetha Dalavai, Plaintiff -Appellant, v. The Regents; Et Al., Defendants -Appellees. Memorandum Opinion: August 16, 2024 _ U.S. Dis trict Court, S.D. California No. 22-cv-1992 Randal Jerome Dalavai, Plaintiff , v. The Regents, Et Al., Defendants. Final Order: April 5, 2023