Venosh v. Henzes

NEALON, J,

— The defendant hospital in this malpractice action has appealed the special trial master’s discovery order directing it to produce two incident or “event” reports pertaining to plaintiff’s medical treatment which serves as the basis for this suit. The hospital contends that the event reports are privileged and protected from discovery by Section 4 of the Peer Review Protection Act (“PRPA”), 63 P.S. § 425.4, Section 311 of the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (“MCARE”) Act, 40 P.S. § 1303.311, and Section 299b-22 of the federal Patient Safety Quality Improvement Act *413o…