Yarbrough v. Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Plaintiff filed medical malpractice action for treatment received at community clinic, but named as defendant hospital which provides financial, technological, and strategic support to clinic.  A hospital cannot be held vicariously liable under doctrine of apparent agency set forth in Illinois Supreme Court's 1993 Gilbert v. Sycamore Hospital decision and its progeny for the acts of employees of an unrelated, independent clinic that is not a party to the present litigation.(KARMEIER, THOMAS, GARMAN, concurring; BURKE, FREEMAN, and KILBRIDE, dissenting.)