Title: Mileikowsky v. West Hills Hosp.
Citation: 45 Cal. 4th 1259 46 Cal.4th 679a-modification
Docket Number: S156986, S156986m
State: California
Issuer: California Supreme Court
Date: June 17, 2009

Filed 6/17/09  
 
 
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 
GIL N. MILEIKOWSKY, 
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Plaintiff and Appellant, 
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S156986 
 
v. 
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Ct.App. 2/8 B186238 
WEST HILLS HOSPITAL AND 
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MEDICAL CENTER et al., 
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Los Angeles County 
 
Defendants and Respondents. ) 
Super. Ct. No. BS091943 
 ___________________________________ ) 
 
 
MODIFICATION OF OPINION 
 
THE COURT: 
 
 
The opinion herein, appearing at 45 Cal.4th 1259, is modified as follows: 
 
1. 
The text of footnote 4 appearing in 45 Cal.4th at page 1268 is deleted in its 
entirety and the following text substituted:  The cited section is part of the Health Care 
Quality Improvement Act of 1986, title 42 United States Code section 11101 et seq., 
enacted to respond to a ‘national need to restrict the ability of incompetent physicians to 
move from State to State without disclosure or discovery of the physician’s previous 
damaging or incompetent performance’ (42 U.S.C. § 11101(2)).   
 
2. 
The last sentence appearing in 45 Cal.4th at page 1275 is deleted and the 
following sentence substituted:  And, as decisions relating to clinical privileges are 
generally the province of a hospital’s peer review bodies and not its governing body (but 
see § 809.05, subds. (b) & (c)), West Hills’s governing board similarly lacked the 
authority to ratify the order of dismissal.   
 
This modification does not affect the judgment.