Legal Opinion
Lewin v. St. Joseph Hospital of Orange
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 29, 1978No. Civ. 19171PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KAUFMAN, J.
The ultimate question presented by this case is whether the governing board of a “private” nonprofit hospital corporation may validly make a policy decision, based on its reasonable judgment that it is in the best interests of good patient care and sound administration of the hospital, to operate the hospital’s chronic renal hemodialysis facility on a “closed-staff” basis (i.e., by arranging for exclusive use and practical administration of the facility with a single group of nephrologists associated together in their practice of medicine and who devote all but an…
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