Records detailing a doctor’s malpractice litigation history and warning letters his hospital received regarding delinquent medical records are not protected by the Peer Review Protection Act simply because of their placement in the doctor’s file, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled.
Scranton Quincy Hospital must provide Charles and Marissa Vaccaro with the requested documents as part of discovery in their negligence claims against the hospital and the attending obstetrician who helped deliver their daughter, whose brain injuries they allege were caused by a delayed cesarean section. The hospital’s professional practice evaluations of the doctor, however, are protected under the act, according to Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas Judge Terrence R. Nealon’s Dec. 8 memorandum and order in Vaccaro v. Scranton Quincy Hospital.
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