El-Attar v. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center

Opinion

LIU, J.

Hospitals in this state have a dual structure, consisting of an administrative governing body, which oversees the operations of the hospital, and a medical staff, which provides medical services and is generally responsible for ensuring that its members provide adequate medical care to patients at the hospital. In order to practice at a hospital, a physician must be granted staff privileges. Because "a hospital’s decision to deny a physician staff privileges may have a significant effect on a physician’s ability to practice medicine, a physician is entitled to certain procedural…