An appeals court recently sided with a medical school by holding that it did not violate a medical resident’s due process rights in dismissing her from its residency program. In reaching this decision, the 6th U.S. Circuit...more
In Khoiny v. Dignity Health, the California Court of Appeal held that hospital residency programs are primarily employment programs and medical residents are primarily employees. Therefore, courts should not give special...more
Last month, Baker Donelson reported the surprise ruling out of the Third Circuit in Jane Doe v. Mercy Medical Center in which the court held that the discrimination and harassment prohibitions of Title IX apply to a private...more
Hospital administrators are well aware their institutions are subject to a whole host of workplace-related federal statutes: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),...more