Opinion ID: 839447
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Heading: a licensed health facility or agency

Text: The Court of Appeals correctly applied the relevant statutes in determining that licensed health facilities and agencies are those licensed under article 17 of the Public Health Code. [22] Article 17, entitled Facilities and Agencies, provides its own definition of what is a health facility or agency in the form of a list. The list does not include pharmacies. [23] All the entities listed do more than just dispense medication. They provide in- or out-patient or residential or emergency medical care or treatment. MCL 333.20115(1) allows the promulgation of administrative rules to further define this list. Neither party has identified any administrative expansion of the list. Under the statutory definition, a pharmacy is not a licensed health facility or agency and cannot be directly liable for medical malpractice in that capacity. Nor can its agents and employees be liable for medical malpractice as agents or employees of a licensed health facility or agency. The Court of Appeals correctly held that Randall and Crown Pharmacy cannot be liable for medial malpractice under this rationale.