Allegri v. Providence-St. Margaret Health Center

Swinehart, J.:

This appeal arises out of the termination on January 29, 1982, of plaintiff Thomas J. Allegri’s employment by the defendant, Providence-St. Margaret Health Center. Plaintiff is a physical therapist who had worked for defendant Health Center and its predecessor institutions, St. Margaret Hospital and Providence Hospital, since 1955.

Plaintiff was the first chief physical therapist for St. Margaret Hospital, and was in charge of its physical therapy department until 1966. In 1966 plaintiff left the hospital for his own private practice. He returned to St. Margaret’s approximately…