Burrows

MEMORANDUM **

This lawsuit concerns the death of eleven-month-old Cody Burrows, who was unsuccessfully treated over the course of a weekend at the Redbud Community Hospital, transferred to the Santa Rosa Community Hospital, and then transferred shortly thereafter to the University of California Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Cody’s parents, David Burrows and Rhoda Thomas, sued i) Dr. Wolfgang Schug (“Schug”), ii) Dr. M. Fred Brewer, a pediatrician on call and available for consultation with the emergency room at Santa Rosa hospital, iii) Redbud Hospital, iv) the Redbud Community Hospital District, which owned and operated Red-bud Hospital at the time of Cody’s death, v) Adventist Health, Inc., a hospital group that provided administrative and managerial services to Redbud and later purchased the assets making up Redbud Hospital, and vi) the Janzen, Johnston & Rockwell Emergency Management Group of California, Inc. (“JJ & R”), a group that provided physician staffing services to Redbud Hospital.

Brewer was dismissed from the case. The Redbud District settled for $750,000, and the district court granted summary judgment for JJ & R and Adventist on vicarious and…