Lutfi v. Brighton Community Hospital Ass'n

Opinion by

Judge MARQUEZ.

In this dispute involving his removal from a schedule of physicians providing services in a hospital emergency medical service department (ER), plaintiff, Bashar Lutfi, M.D., appeals the summary judgment in favor of defendants, Platte Valley Medical Center, Inc. (the hospital), and John Hicks, the hospital's chief executive officer. We affirm.

The hospital contracted with Platte Valley Emergency Physicians, Inc. (PVEP), to provide physicians to cover the hospital's ER. That contract contained a provision stating that the hospital could require PVEP to remove a physician…