Medical malpractice isn’t always the fault of a single doctor; often, it is the result of systemic failures within a hospital or emergency room. Emergency departments are high-pressure environments, but “being busy” is not a legal excuse for failing to follow safety protocols. This category focuses on negligence occurring within the facility itself, including triage errors, nursing mistakes, patient elopement, and hospital-acquired infections like sepsis. We also address the unique legal challenges of suing large healthcare systems and government-run facilities like VA hospitals. From the failure to monitor a patient in the ER to administrative errors that lead to catastrophic falls or medication mix-ups, these articles highlight how institutional negligence can be proven and how hospitals are held accountable for the safety of those in their care.
Hospitals can easily prevent patients from contracting an infection that still affects 45,000 to 90,000 people per year. This infection is from a common device used to administer medicine and fluids called a central venous catheter (CVC), also known as a central line.This device is a tube that leads straight to the patient’s heart, which allows doctors to administer medicine to their patients quickly.
Our attorneys are investigating the circumstances that led up to a man contracting a fungal infection following lung transplant surgery at UPMC.
A young child suffered permanent brain damage following an accident that occurred in a hospital where he was being monitored after being struck by a car. Jerry Meyers represented the child and his family and was able to assist them in navigating economic and other challenges they faced after this tragedy left the child permanently disabled.
According to the CDC 99,000 people die annually from hospital-acquired infections. As Betsy McCaughey Ross, the former Lieutenant Governor of New York put it, “You
