Rea v. Hospital Corp. of America

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SOLIS, District Judge.

This lawsuit was filed by two physicians against the hospital where they formerly practiced, against the hospital’s administrator and four doctors. The Plaintiffs practiced environmental medicine and admitted patients to Bedford Northeast Community Hospital’s (“BNECH”) Environmental Care Unit (“ECU”). The suit arises from the suspension of the privileges of Drs. Rea and Johnson to practice at the hospital and from the subsequent closing of the hospital’s ECU.

At the time of the actions complained of in the suit, Defendant Dr. Jim Linton was…