An Illinois hospital is at least temporarily barred from suspending a doctor’s clinical privileges because it bungled its obligation to give him a fair hearing (Murphy v. Advocate Health & Hosps. Corp., 2017 BL 70903, Ill. App. Ct., 4th Dist., No. 4-16-0513, 3/7/17).
Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp. failed to disclose to Dr. Patrick Murphy information he needed to mount a defense in an intraprofessional conference that resulting in an affirmance of his summary suspension, the Illinois Court of Appeal, Fourth District, said March 7.
The hospital, referred to by the court as BroMenn,
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