Tulare (Calif.) Regional Medical Center held a board meeting Monday, Feb. 15 to vote for the second time to terminate the group that governs its physicians, according to Tulare Advance-Register/ Visalia Times-Delta.
Attendees told the paper board members voted to terminate the Medical Staff of Tulare Regional Medical Center, which oversees its physicians, though the paper was unable to confirm reports the vote was public. Most California hospitals do not employ physicians, so groups affiliated with the hospital govern them instead, according to the report.
The board was voting a second time because it held a closed door vote in January to change leadership to the Professional Medical Staff of TRMC, according to the report. However, the California Medical Association said this violated multiple laws. First, it violated a requirement that physicians — not the board — vote to change leadership, and second, it violated a state open meeting law, according to the report.
To remedy its violation of open meeting laws, the board held Monday's vote in public, According to attendees, the public portion of the meeting lasted 20 minutes, and the board finished the meeting in private.
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