Conservatorship of E.A. CA1/1

I. BACKGROUND

A petition was filed in August 2020 seeking a conservatorship over E.A. on the grounds that she was gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder and unwilling to accept, or incapable of receiving, voluntary treatment. The petition followed a long history of her interaction with county mental health officials beginning in 2016, including 10 outpatient referrals and 8 acute inpatient hospitalizations. Most recently, E.A. had been admitted to the regional medical center in late July 2020, a day after she was discharged from the hospital to a crisis residential program. She left the residential program within hours of arriving and was later found wandering around a BART2 station in her underwear. E.A. was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, and was too disoriented and disorganized to accept treatment voluntarily. In October 2020, E.A. accepted the appointment of a conservator. A petition for renewal of E.A.’s conservatorship was filed on September 24, 2021. At an October 19 hearing on the renewal petition, E.A. again accepted appointment of a conservator. Another petition for renewal, the one involved in this appeal, was filed on September 13,…