Ex Parte Brookwood Health Services, Inc.

WISE, Justice.

Brookwood Health Services, Inc., the defendant below, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Jefferson Circuit Court to dismiss Rita Kay's action against it. We grant the petition and issue the writ.

*1263Facts and Procedural History

On October 8, 2016, Kay filed a complaint against "Brookwood Baptist Health LLC" and fictitiously named defendants pursuant to the Alabama Medical Liability Act, § 6-5-480 et seq. and § 6-5-540 et seq., Ala. Code 1975, based on injuries she allegedly suffered at the hands of another patient while she was being treated in the Psychiatric and…