Adkins v. Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center

JUSTICE "WARD

delivered the opinion of the court:

Dr. Lewis E. Adkins, a physician, brought this suit in the circuit court of Coles County against the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center (the Center), a small private hospital located in Charleston, Illinois, and several physicians serving on the Center’s peer review committees. The suit challenged the Center’s decision to deny his annual reapplication for staff privileges and to impose a summary suspension of surgical and obstetrical privileges. These disciplinary actions were taken because of Adkins’ claimed failure to conform to the Center’s…