§ 25-12,121.Hospital medical staff committee; hospital utilization committee; extended care facility utilization committee; recommendations or orders; liability for damages.

Committees that review whether a patient needs continued hospitalization or extended care make recommendations and orders that directly affect a patient’s treatment. Section 25-12,121 protects the people who serve on those committees from being sued over the substance of that work.

No hospital medical staff committee, hospital utilization committee, or extended care facility utilization committee, and no member or agent of any such committee, can be held legally liable for damages or other relief to a patient, or to any person or organization acting on a patient’s behalf, because of a recommendation or order the committee made regarding hospitalization, continued hospitalization, or confinement in an extended care facility.

This protection is narrower than a general grant of immunity for anything a committee does — it applies specifically to liability arising from a recommendation or order tied to hospitalization or continued confinement. It works alongside section 25-12,120’s consent presumption: the committee is presumed to have lawful access to the patient’s records for its review, and section 25-12,121 then protects the committee and its members from liability for the decisions that review produces.