Florida Doctor Denied Access to Hospital’s Patient Safety Data

A Florida hospital won’t have to turn over quality of care files or referral logs because they fell within a federal privilege for patient safety work product, a US judge said.

Records sought by a wrongful termination plaintiff didn’t qualify for an exception to the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act’s work product privilege, Judge William F. Jung said Tuesday, after considering new arguments and privately reviewing the requested files.

The case was returned to Jung in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida after an Eleventh Circuit panel told him to reconsider his ruling that ...