Westlake Community Hospital v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
Paul Caruso and James Alie for Real Party in Interest.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
TOBRINER, J.—
Recent California decisions establish that before a public or private hospital may deny a doctor the right to practice his profession at that hospital, either by the termination of existing staff privileges or by the denial of an initial application for such privileges, the hospital must provide a fair procedure which affords the doctor an opportunity to answer the “charges” upon which his exclusion rests. (See, e.g., Pinsker v. Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists (1974) 12 Cal.3d 541 [116 Cal.Rptr. 245, 526 P.2d 253]; Ascherman v. San Francisco Medical Society (1974)…
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