Crow v. Penrose-St. Francis Healthcare System

I. Introduction

At issue here is a physician's ability to obtain judicial relief when his hospital staff privileges have been suspended pending completion of the peer review process. The Pen-rose-St. Francis Healthcare System ("the Hospital") asks this court to overturn a trial court ruling allowing Dr. Jimmie R. Crow to bring a civil action against the Hospital seeking injunctive relief and asserting common law claims arising out of the Hospital's peer review of Crow before that peer review process has been completed. The Hospital argues that Crow's claims are not ripe because he has failed…