Cindy Flick, the former director of medical laboratories at Southern Illinois Healthcare’s three hospitals, sued the corporation in Jackson County for allegedly firing her in 2005 as retaliation for reporting — in 2003 — that quality-control problems at Herrin Hospital might have violated the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988. Shortly after Flick started reporting the possible CLIA violations to supervisors in 2003, her boss reportedly complained about Flick’s &ldquo …