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This appeal involves the application of the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act to an action for damages filed against a defendant that was not covered by the Act when the injury-producing events occurred. The defendant filed a motion for partial summary judgment in the Circuit ...

... In the Patients' Privacy Protection Act, our legislature recognized that "[e]very patient entering and receiving care at a health care facility licensed by the board for licensing health care facilities has the expectation of and right to privacy for care received at such facility." Tenn ...

... Defendant Methodist Healthcare Memphis Hospital was negligent in not seeing that proper care was furnished to Plaintiff Abshure, and further Methodist Healthcare Memphis Hospitals' agents and/or employees were negligent in the medical care and attention rendered to ...