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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 0-793 / 10-0264 Filed December 22, 2010

JANEL ORGAVANYI, Individually and As Next Best Friend of Dorotea Orgavanyi and Gabor Orgavanyi, Plaintiffs-Appellees, vs. HENRY COUNTY HEALTH CENTER, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________________________________________________

Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Henry County, Cynthia H. Danielson, Judge.

The defendant hospital appeals a discovery order granting the plaintiffs motion to compel production of a "patient safety report." AFFIRMED.

James E. Shipman, Christine L. Conover, and Kerry A. Finley of Simmons, Perrine, Moyer, Bergman, P.L.C., Cedar Rapids, and Constance Alt of Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellant. J. Russell Hixson and Terrence D. Brown of Hixson & Brown, P.C., Clive, for appellees.

Heard by Mansfield, P.J., and Danilson and Tabor, JJ.

2 MANSFIELD, P.J. This appeal presents the question whether a nurses incident report to a hospital risk manager is covered by Iowas statutory peer review privilege. See Iowa Code

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