Rao v. Board of County Commissioners

The plaintiff sought by this mandamus action to compel the defendant members of the governing board of Lakewood General Hospital to admit her to membership on the medical staff of that hospital.

On motion of the defendants, the trial court, finding in the pleadings and the affidavits before it no denial of the defendants’ allegation that the hospital is a private hospital, held, upon the authority of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound v. King County Medical Soc’y, 39 Wn.2d 586, 237 P.2d 737 (1951), that the defendants had the right to refuse permission to join the hospital staff upon any…