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DIAZ v. PROVENA HOSPITALS

Nos. 2-03-0895, 2-03-0975.

817 N.E.2d 206 (2004)

352 Ill. App.3d 1165

288 Ill.Dec. 81

Evelyn DIAZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PROVENA HOSPITALS, d/b/a Provena Saint Joseph Hospital; The Local Governing Board of Provena Hospitals, d/b/a Provena, and Barbara Amsler, Thomas M. Johannesen, Margaret Mueterties, Peggy Kirby, Robert Gilliam, Jerry Cain, Leo Nelson, Margaret Gavigan, Robert Schwab, John Shales, Alan Hefner; and William Brown, Indiv. and as Members of the Local Governing Board, Defendants-Appellants. Evelyn Diaz, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Provena Hospitals, d/b/a Provena Saint Joseph Hospital, Defendant and Contemnor-Appellant (The Local Governing Board of Provena Hospitals, d/b/a Provena, and Barbara Amsler, Thomas M. Johannesen, Margaret Mueterties, Peggy Kirby, Robert Gilliam, Jerry Cain, Leo Nelson, Margaret Gavigan, Robert Schwab, John Shales, Alan Hefner, and William Brown, Indiv. and as Members of the Local Governing Board, Defendants-Appellants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.

October 15, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Jones, Mark S. Bishop, Huck, Bouma, Martin, Jones & Bradshaw, P.C., Wheaton, Nancy G. Lischer, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, for Barbara Amsler M.D., William Brown, Jerry Cain, Margaret Gavigan, Robert Gilliam, Alan Hefner M.D., Thomas M. Johannesen, Peggy Kirby, Margaret Mueterties, Leo Nelson, Provena Hospitals, Robert Schwab, John Shales, The Local Governing Board of Provena Hospitals in Nos. 2-03-0895, 2-03-0975.

Paul G. Krentz, Kinnally, Krentz, Loran, Hodge & Herman, P.C., Aurora, Gerald G. Goldberg, Michael K. Goldberg, Robert A. Bauerschmidt, Goldberg & Frankenstein, LLC, Chicago, for Evelyn Diaz M.D. in No. 2-03-0895.

Mark B. Stern, Dana J. Martin, U.S. Department of Justice/Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States Department of Health & Human Services in No. 2-03-0895.

Robert John Kane, Illinois State Medical Society, Springfield, for Amicus Curiae Illinois State Medical Society in No. 2-03-0895.

Paul G. Krentz, Kinnally, Krentz, Loran, Hodge & Herman, P.C., Aurora, Gerald G. Goldberg, Goldberg & Frankenstein, LLC, Chicago, for Evelyn Diaz M.D. in No. 2-03-0975.

Justice BOWMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Provena Hospitals, d/b/a Provena Saint Joseph Hospital (Hospital), appeals from an order of the circuit court of Kane County finding it in indirect civil contempt for failing to retract a report it made to the National Practitioner Data Bank regarding plaintiff, Evelyn Diaz, M.D. The court imposed upon the Hospital a monetary penalty of $500 per day for the first 14 days of noncompliance and $1,000 per day...

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