WILLIS v. UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICES, INC.

No. 92-8763.

993 F.2d 837 (1993)

Carol H. WILLIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICES, INC., dba University Hospital, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 22, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary M. Brockington, Warner R. Wilson, Anne W. Lewis, Wilson Strickland & Benson, Atlanta, GA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Raymond Gordon Chadwick, Jr., Robert Perry Sentell, III, Knox & Zacks, Augusta, GA, for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, ATKINS, Senior District Judge.


HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from the district court's entry of summary judgment for the appellee, we affirm the district court's ruling that a hospital's firing of the appellant did not constitute state action for 42 U.S.C. § 1983 purposes.

FACTS

University Health Services, Inc. (UHS), the appellee, is a private, nonprofit corporation that operates University Hospital pursuant to a lease agreement with the Richmond County Hospital...

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