Superior Court - DENISE COOPER, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF HAROLD S. COOPER, DECEASED v. FRANKFORD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, INC.,

DENISE COOPER, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF HAROLD S. COOPER, DECEASED v. FRANKFORD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, INC., INDIVIDUALLY AND/OR DOING BUSINESS AS THE FRANKFORD HOSPITAL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA AND/OR DOING BUSINESS AS FRANKFORD HOSPITAL- TORRESDALE AND THE FRANKFORD HOSPITAL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, INDIVIDUALLY AND/OR DOING BUSINESS AS FRANKFORD HOSPITAL-TORRESDALE AND FRANKFORD HOSPITAL-TORRESDALE AND CLIFTON HALL, M.D. No. 2755 EDA 2007 2008 PA Super 248 Atlantic: 960 A.2d 134 Filed: 10/20/2008
	Appeal from the Order Entered September 12, 2007 In the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County Civil Division at No.: December Term, 2006 No. 000170
Before: STEVENS, MUSMANNO and BENDER, JJ.
Opinion by: BENDER, J.
Denise Cooper (“Mrs. Cooper”), individually and as administratrix of the estate of her spouse, Harold S. Cooper, M.D., deceased (“Dr. Cooper”), (collectively, “Plaintiff”), appeals from the September 12, 2007 order that sustained the preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer of the defendants, Frankford Health Care System, Inc., The Frankford Hospital of the City of Philadelphia, Frankford Hospital – Torresdale, (collectively, “Hospital”), and Clifton Hall, M.D. (“Dr. Hall”), (collectively, “Defendants”), resulting in the dismissal of Plaintiff’s wrongful death complaint. The trial court determined that Plaintiff did not plead sufficient facts in her complaint to establish that the defendants owed a duty to protect the decedent, Dr. Cooper, from suicide. We affirm.

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