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Can a nursing home refuse to allow a physician whose practices it does not think are safe to see its patients? Surprisingly, a Kansas court thinks the answer is no, at least in some circumstances.
Crestview Manor, a Kansas ICF, revoked the privileges of Terry McGeeney, M.D., because he requested that all laboratory procedures for his patients be performed at his office-run lab. Since the lab was not certified, it did not meet the nursing home's quality-of-care standards. The facility also felt that McGeeney had been uncooperative with its staff, delinquent in his care of patients, and lax in keeping medical record entries and patients' records. A legal ...