Mileikowsky v. West Hills Hosp. Med. Ctr.

MEDICAL STAFF HEARINGS

Mileikowsky v. West Hills Hosp. Med. Ctr., No. B186238 ( Cal. Ct. App. June 8, 2007)

The California Court of Appeal ruled that a hearing officer did not have the authority to terminate a peer review proceeding prior to commencement of the hearing based on the physician’s failure to provide information from a similar proceeding at another hospital, and remanded the case with directions for the hospital to conduct a hearing. In so ruling, the court distinguished the case from another decision involving the same physician, Mileikowsky v. Tenet Healthsystem, in which the court ruled that a hearing officer could terminate a hearing based on a physician’s disruptive conduct.