Case Name: In the Matter of Paul C. Maggio, Doing Business as Patchogue Nursing Center, Respondent, v. Barbara A. DeBuono, as Commissioner of Health of the State of New York, et al., Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2005-03-31
Citations: 4 N.Y.3d 820
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Paul C. Maggio, Doing Business as Patchogue Nursing Center, Respondent, v Barbara A. DeBuono, as Commissioner of Health of the State of New York, et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 820–821

Head Matter:
[829 NE2d 668, 796 NYS2d 575]
In the Matter of Paul C. Maggio, Doing Business as Patchogue Nursing Center, Respondent, v Barbara A. DeBuono, as Commissioner of Health of the State of New York, et al., Appellants.
Decided March 31, 2005
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, New York City (Carol Fischer of counsel), for appellants.
Hamburger, Maxson, Yaffe, Wishod & Knauer, LLP, Melville (David N Yaffe of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division, insofar as appealed from, should be reversed, with costs, and the petition dismissed in its entirety.
The Department of Health's reclassification of certain "restorative therapy" patients at a residential health care facility who showed no actual improvement as "maintenance therapy" patients was neither arbitrary nor capricious (see Matter of El-cor Health Servs. v Novello, 100 NY2d 273 [2003]).
Chief Judge Kaye and Judges G.B. Smith, Ciparick, Rosenblatt, Graffeo, Read and R.S. Smith concur in memorandum.
On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.4 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.4), order, insofar as appealed from, reversed, etc.