of poorly repaired brick floors and sloppily loaded cargo certainly applies to situations in which people must entrust that most personal of things, their physical well-being, to physicians at an emergency room intimately connected with and closely controlled by a hospital. However, as explained further below, we do not believe it is necessary, as the Court of Appeals did, to impose an absolute nondelegable duty on hospitals. B. NOT SUPPORTED BY LAW IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS Tuomey Regional contends that the law of other jurisdictions does not support the Court of Appeals’ decision. We disagree. Alaska, Florida, and New York courts have applied the nondelegable duty doctrine to care provided by a hospital’s emergency room physicians. See Jackson v. Power, 743 P.2d 1376, 1385 (Alaska 1987) (<HOLDING>); superseded in part by Alaska Stát. §
holding that claim against hospital regarding patients fall caused by defective footboard on hospital bed constituted health care liability claim holding that a general acute care hospital may not delegate its duty to provide physicians for emergency room care because the law imposes a duty on hospital to provide that health care holding that hospital may be held liable for negligence of emergency room physicians under apparent agency doctrine holding that the law imposes on every person who enters upon an active course of conduct the positive duty to exercise ordinary care to protect others from harm and calls a violation of that duty negligence  that a complete binding contract between the parties is not a prerequisite to a duty to use due care in ones actions     and that architects may be held liable for a breach of the duty of care and breach of contract that results in foreseeable injury economic or otherwise holding that care of the grounds was part of the business of the hospital