Carter-Shields v. Alton Health Institute

PRESIDING JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Vera E. Carter-Shields, M.D. (plaintiff), filed a declaratory judgment action against Alton Health Institute (AHI), seeking to have her employment contract, referred to by the parties as a physician service agreement (agreement), with AHI declared invalid. After AHI allegedly assigned all of its physician service agreements, including plaintiffs agreement, to Community Primary Care Physicians (CPCP), that entity intervened and is also a defendant herein. AHI and CPCP (defendants) filed a counterclaim for breach of the agreement,…