Green v. Board of Directors of the Lutheran Medical Center

ENOCH, Chief Judge.

Petitioners, Ronald Green and Edward Ballow, doctors of podiatry who were denied staff privileges by the Board of Directors (Board) of Lutheran Medical Center (LMC), seek review of the district court’s dismissal of their challenge to the Board’s decision. We affirm.

Petitioners’ applications for medical staff privileges were initially denied by the Medical Staff Executive Committee at LMC. Pursuant to LMC bylaws, this denial was appealed to a hearing panel which found that petitioners were qualified as podiatrists and that they should be admitted to the staff. The findings…