ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Three former employees from OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center trade the operating room for a conference room Tuesday.
In their attorney’s office in Oak Brook, the women take their experiences at the Rockford hospital public.
“It’s been really emotional. It still is,” described Cindamon Proffitt, who served as operating room manager at Saint Anthony from 2018 through 2025. “It’s just hard. You want to do the right thing for the patients.”
Proffitt joins two other former operating room leaders at OSF in a lawsuit against the medical center: Sofia Gudino, previously an operating room manager, as well as Tina Peppers, a former director of surgical services.
“Every step that we took and measure that we took was to ensure that the outcomes of our patients were the best that they could be,” detailed Gudino.
Represented by Jeffrey Law Office, the trio alleges the hospital put profit and efficiency over patients’ health and safety. The 18-page suit lays out claims neurosurgeons reportedly violating hospital policy as well as OSF leadership ignoring complaints from staff.
The lawsuit — brought by the Illinois Whistleblower Act — centers on a pair of neurosurgeons and their actions between 2023 and 2025, when the trio became aware of “repeated and dangerous safety violations within the hospital’s neurosurgery service line,” it reads.
“We had a new group come in for our neuro providers,” said Peppers. “They were struggling a little bit to follow rules.”
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