Authority Act shows this intent by specifically granting public hospitals the power previously granted to public hospitals in metropolitan areas to “contract for or otherwise participate solely or with others in the ... operation of [a] hospital.” Tenn.Code Ann. § 7-57-502(c) (1998). We therefore hold that the Hospital Authority Act permits the Authority to close the staff of the Imaging Department of CRMC by means of an exclusive provider contract. We accordingly hold that Henderson v. Knoxville has been legislatively overruled by the Hospital Authority Act. B. Decision to Close the Staff of the Imaging Department The parties in this case agree that they are contractually bound by the medical staff bylaws. See Lewisburg Cmty. Hosp., Inc. v. Alfredson, 805 S.W.2d 756, 759 (Tenn.1991) (<HOLDING>). The defendants allege that the medical staff
holding that a hospitals bylaws are an integral part of its contractual relationship with the members of its medical staff holding that corporation must act in accordance with its charter and bylaws holding that hospitals denial of staff privileges to disabled doctor violated title iii because ada applies not only to members of the public seeking medical services but also to those wishing to work as doctors within hospital holding that hospitals may be found liable for conspiring with members of medical staff and that evidence of pretextual sham peer review proceedings presented jury question whether hospitals conspired with peer review committees in violation of sherman act holding that a hospital can conspire with members of its medical staff