HAYES v. MERCY HEALTH CORP.


739 A.2d 114 (1999)

Timothy J. HAYES, M.D., Appellee, v. MERCY HEALTH CORPORATION, t/a Mercy Catholic Medical Center a/k/a Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 1, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian M. Peters, Jonathan B. Sprague, Philadelphia, for Mercy Health Corp.

Richard A. Sprague, Geoffrey R. Johnson, Joseph R. Podraza, Jr., Philadelphia, for Timothy Hayes, M.D.

Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN and SAYLOR, JJ.


OPINION

SAYLOR, Justice.

The issue before us is whether the confidentiality provision of the Peer Review Protection Act ("the Act"), 63 P.S. §§ 425.1-425.4, applies to an internal hospital proceeding in which a physician challenges his own peer review process. We conclude that it does not, and therefore affirm the trial court.

In October of 1995, Appellant Mercy Catholic Medical Center ("the Hospital") summarily suspended the clinical...

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