The question is not whether he is immune from suit for medical malpractice. The question is, During what time frame can he be sued? The Illinois Supreme Court has already determined that the one-year limitations period of the Act applies to medical malpractice actions. Tosado v. Miller, 188 Ill. 2d 186, 720 N.E.2d 1075 (1999); Ferguson v. McKenzie, 202 Ill. 2d 304, 780 N.E.2d 660 (2001). By a June 7, 1954, election, the Union County Hospital District was established. A hospital district is a municipal corporation and, as such, can exercise governmental powers. 70 ILCS 910/15 (West 1998). Consequently, because of the manner in which Union County Hospital is structured, it is entitled to the benefits of the Act. See Carroll v. Paddock, 199 Ill. 2d 16, 25-26, 764 N.E.2d 1118, 1124 (2002) (<HOLDING>). A. Independent Contractor or Employee 1.
holding that plaintiff director of security for a hospital had sufficiently pled requisite public policy and a close fit where he asserted that a hospital fired him for reporting to law enforcement that a hospital administrator bribed a public official holding that where hospital used balance billing that since the hospital had already received payments from the patient and his health insurer and had agreed to accept that amount as payment in full for its services there was no longer any amount owing to the hospital and thus it could not assert a statutory hospital lien for the difference between its charges and the amount received in light of the negotiated network agreements holding that care of the grounds was part of the business of the hospital holding that a nonprofit hospital may not be a local public entity entitled to utilize the act and its oneyear limitations period if the hospital was not found to have conducted public business holding that because the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding the expert report adequate as to the vicarious liability claim against the hospital based on the actions of the doctors plaintiffs suit against the hospital including her claim that the hospital was vicariously hable for the actions of its nurses could proceed