*1 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN DISTRICT ELEANOR REGINELLI AND ORLANDO : No. 39 WAL 2016 REGINELLI :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal from : the Order of the Superior Court v. :
: : MARCELLUS BOGGS, M.D., AND :
MONONGAHELA VALLEY HOSPITAL, :
INC. AND UPMC EMERGENCY :
MEDICINE, INC., D/B/A EMERGENCY :
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, INC. :
: : PETITION OF: MONONGAHELA VALLEY :
HOSPITAL, INC. :
ORDER PER CURIAM
AND NOW , this 7 th day of July, 2016, the Petitions for Allowance of Appeal are GRANTED , limited to the following issues, as stated by petitioners:
1. Whether the Superior Court erred by holding an outside medical provider’s
peer review proceedings regarding its employees who staff a hospital’s Emergency Department under a contract with that hospital are not entitled to protection from disclosure under the Pennsylvania Peer Review Protection Act?
2. Whether the sharing of peer review records by a third-party medical
provider that operates a hospital’s Emergency Department with the administration of that hospital constitutes a waiver of peer review protection as to those records?
3. Whether a hospital that contracts with a third-party medical provider to
operate the hospital’s Emergency Department may claim protection under the Peer Review Protection Act for records of peer review proceedings *2 conducted by the medical provider regarding its employees who staff the hospital’s Emergency Department?
These matters are to be listed for argument with the petitions granted at 40, 41 & 42 WAL 2016.
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