(Download) "St. Joseph Medical Center" by Supreme Court of Montana # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: St. Joseph Medical Center
- Author : Supreme Court of Montana
- Release Date : January 12, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 88 KB
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This case involves a challenge to a trial courts discovery order requiring the production of several internal hospital documents. The documents consist of e-mails, correspondence, letters, and testimony by hospital staff, regarding incidents which staff members believed should be investigated by a medical review committee, i.e., a peer review group which monitors the quality of health services at the hospital. At issue is whether the documents are protected by the medical review committee privilege, which shields records, proceedings and files of such committees from discovery and admissibility in civil actions. We are also presented with the threshold question of whether the trial courts discovery order is appealable by the hospital, known as St. Joseph Medical Center, Inc. We shall hold that the order is appealable by St. Joseph, and we shall, on the merits, reverse the trial courts order.