California Court of Appeal

A hospital's failure to begin a peer review hearing on time does not render the administrative remedy of the peer review process inadequate or unavailable and does not constitute such deprivation of "fair procedure" that the physician is entitled to escape peer review altogether.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2005
• Published 04/04/2005

Judges

• ROBIE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bingham McCutchen,Ross E. Campbell, Beth McGowen, Katharine West, East Palo Alto, and David M. Heilbron, San Francisco, for Petitioners Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Jack Rozance, M.D., and Robert Azevedo, M.D., Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Samuel B. Shepherd and Philip J. Wang, Redwood Shores, for Petitioner The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., Carter & Schear, Stephen D. Schear and Jana Carter, Oakland;  Eric Weaver for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.