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B-212150 1 (1984-09-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlwy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION OF THE UNITED STATES 0 ; WASHINGTON. D. C. 20546 FILE: B-212150 DATE: September 5, 1984 MATTER OF: Panama Canal Commission-Responsibility for Saint Elizabeths Hospital Services DIGEST: The Panama Canal Commission is not financially responsible for the cost of care provided by Saint Elizabeths Hospital to two patients who were adjudged insane and transferred from the Canal Zone to the Hospital many years ago. The two men were transferred to Saint Elizabeths pursuant to 24 U.S.C. S 196, and became the responsibility of the Federal Government because their legal residence in a state, territory, or the District of Columbia could not be ascertained. No subsequent determination of legal residence has ever been made, so they remain the responsibility of the Federal Government. The Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission has requested our decision on whether the Commission should reim- burse Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the cost of care provided to two patients who were adjudged insane and transferred to the Hospital many years ago by the Canal Zone Government or its predecessor. The Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths has pro- vided us with a memorandum prepared by his staff addressing the issue of financial liability for the costs of patients trans- ferred from the Canal Zone. As will be explained more fully below, we do not think that the Panama Canal Commission is financially responsible for the cost of the care provided to the two men. According to the submission, the two patients, Warren A. Crussey and Lawrence Adams, were adjudged insane in a civil commitment proceeding by the U.S. District Court for the District of the Canal Zone under authority of 4 C.Z.C. S 1755 (1934 ed.). Crussey and Adams were transferred from the Corozal Hospital in the Canal Zone, where they had been com- mitted, to Saint Elizabeths Hospital in 1945 and 1953 respec- tively, under authority contained in 4 C.Z.C. S 1763 (1934 ed.) This section, now codified at 24 U.S.C. S 196, provides: Upon the application of the Governor of the Canal Zone, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital, in the District of Columbia, for treatment, any American citizen subject to a

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