Verrees

FACTS

Verrees is a neurosurgeon who in 2008 was persuaded to come to Fresno from Cleveland to practice medicine. She was employed in Fresno by the Central California Faculty Medical Group, Inc. (Practice Group). Practice Group is an organization of faculty physicians and is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco- Fresno Medical Education Program (UCSF Fresno). Verrees also secured privileges to practice medicine at Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center (CRMC)1 under CRMC’s affiliation agreement with UCSF Fresno. Verrees’s work within Practice Group was overseen by, among others, Dr. Jim Davis, its chief of surgery. Beginning in late 2010, tensions and disagreements arose between Verrees and Davis regarding Verrees’s work performance. On April 22, 2011, Davis sent a memorandum to Joyce Fields-Keene (Fields-Keene), chief executive officer of Practice Group, recounting 27 incidents of concern involving Verrees that Davis characterized as “extremely alarming.” These incidents included both performance and behavior-related

1Verrees referred to this entity as Community Medical Centers, Community Regional Medical Center, and CRMC. For convenience, this…