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California medical staff gets right to sue hospitalBut the court says it will not get involved in disputes over outpatient clinics, staff privileges or complaints of retaliation against physicians.By Tanya Albert, AMNews staff. Sept. 1, 2003. A Ventura, Calif., medical staff suing a hospital it believes has stripped it of its self-governance has legal standing to sue over money and workplace conduct, a California judge ruled in July. The hospital, Community Memorial Hospital of San Buenaventura, challenged the medical staff's standing to file a lawsuit, citing a 2002 New Hampshire Supreme Court ruling that said a medical staff there was not a separate legal entity that could sue.
But the California court sided with the Ventura medical staff's argument, one that the AMA and the California Medical Assn. backed in a friend-of-the-court brief. (See correction.) The medical staff cited a footnote in a California ap [...]Full text of AMNews content is available to AMA members and paid subscribers.
Copyright 2003 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
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