Hanly v. Riverside Methodist Hospitals

Peggy Bryant, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Edward J. Hanly, appeals from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas granting the summary judgment motion of defendant-appellee, Riverside Methodist Hospitals.

Defendant hired plaintiff as a nursing assistant in 1982. Except for a brief medical/surgical rotation in 1983, plaintiff worked exclusively in defendant’s mental health division, now known as the “Wesley Health Center.”

As plaintiff was leaving the hospital on May 18, 1989, at the conclusion of his night work shift, he entered an elevator on the third floor with Eric Maddox,…