Polgano v. Christakos

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth L. Thompson, Jr., J.), entered December 20, 2011, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted the motion of de*502fendant St. Barnabas Hospital for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and all cross claims as against it, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

A hospital is ordinarily not liable for the acts of a private attending physician (see Hill v St. Clare’s Hosp., 67 NY2d 72, 79 [1986]) unless a patient, in accepting treatment by the private physician, relies upon the fact that the physician’s services are provided by…