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Health Law Keyed to Furrow
Carter v. Hucks-Folliss
Facts
Dr. Anthony Hucks-Folliss performed neck surgery on Tommy Carter (Plaintiff) at Moore Regional Hospital Center (Defendant). Hucks-Folliss was a neurosurgeon who was on Defendant's staff for more than twenty years. He had never been certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery, and had, in fact, failed the certification examination three times. Credentialing and re-credentialing at Moore (Defendant) was required to comply with Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards, which stated that Board certification was an "excellent benchmark and to be considered when delineating clinical privileges." Hucks-Folliss specifically stated on his re-credentialing applications that he was not Board certified. Plaintiff presented two witnesses who testified that Defendant did not seem to have considered during the re-credentialing process that Hucks-Folliss was not Board certified.
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