A federal District Court in Tennessee has refused to grant a motion for summary judgment filed by the parent entity in a hospital system that was made a co-defendant with the hospital whose employee sued for wrongful termination of employment. The Court said it was too early to tell whether the parent was a single employer with the operating hospital. The employee was employed directly by Baptist Memorial Hospital at Tipton, which is a subsidiary of Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation. Tipton is a separate entity, hires and fires its own employees, and maintains its own financial and human resource functions. The parent provides support in the areas of audit, legal, regulatory...