LEWIN v. ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE

Docket No. 19171.

82 Cal.App.3d 368 (1978)

146 Cal. Rptr. 892

LAURENCE LEWIN, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

June 29, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Musick, Peeler & Garrett, Joseph A. Saunders and James B. Bertero for Defendant and Appellant.

Harry Liddicote, Jr., for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

KAUFMAN, J.

The ultimate question presented by this case is whether the governing board of a "private" nonprofit hospital corporation may validly make a policy decision, based on its reasonable judgment that it is in the best interests of good patient care and sound administration of the hospital, to operate the hospital's chronic renal hemodialysis facility on a "closed-staff...

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