Learn About Hospital Negligence in Santa Clara OR claims hold hospitals accountable when systemic failures cause injuries. Consent forms describe standard procedural risks, but they do not nullify a provider’s fundamental duties to ensure safety precautions and care reasonably aligning with best practices.
Experienced attorneys carefully investigate and assemble independent medical expert record reviews to prove your healthcare providers breached these obligations. Our team helps you recover damages for past and future afflictions linked to a preventable error.
Medical Malpractice
Medical professionals are confronted with life or death situations on a regular basis. They must always provide the highest standards of care. When they fail to do so, serious injuries and wrongful deaths can result.
Medical malpractice claims often hold hospitals responsible for patients’ injuries. Moreover, third parties such as medical equipment manufacturers and drug companies may also be held liable.
Malpractice victims are entitled to recover all past and future medical expenses related to their injuries. They can also recover lost wages and diminished earning capacity. In addition, non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, are recoverable.
Our lawyers consult with medical experts, economists and life-care planners to prove the correlation between a healthcare provider’s negligence and resulting grievous patient harms. This helps our clients establish viability of their claims and recover maximum compensation.
Emergency Room Mistakes
Medical professionals must carefully assess your symptoms to ensure they are treating you properly. They must also be vigilant to detect and treat any underlying conditions that could lead to serious complications. Unfortunately, some doctors misdiagnose patients or discharge them too soon.
In addition to a deadly error that led to the death of a 12-year-old girl and a 21-year-old man with lymphoma, HCA’s Santa Clara County hospital has been fined for not testing enough COVID-19 patients. This is just the latest in a string of fines against county-owned hospitals.
Dozens of ED staff members recently staged a walkout at SCVMC over unsafe working conditions. According to Allan Kamara, an RN at the hospital, and an ED physician who spoke on condition of anonymity to MedPage Today, staffing issues became untenable after USACS bought Valley Emergency Physicians, which had previously staffed the ED.
Surgery Errors
Even when hospital staff is well-trained, mistakes can happen. Surgical errors can cause serious physical and mental harm. These mistakes are often devastating for patients.
Wrong-site surgeries, retained foreign objects, and anesthesia mishaps are common in the operating room. These errors can be deadly.
For example, a patient at Memorial Medical Center in Santa Clara suffered from lack of oxygen and died after a nurse removed sutures that anchored the patient’s tracheostomy tube. State documents say the nurse did not ask for an order or perform a safety check first.
Our accomplished Santa Clara medical malpractice lawyers help clients hold hospitals liable for the harm caused by sloppy care and malpractice. A successful lawsuit can help pay for damages and prevent a similar incident from happening again.
Medication Errors
A hospital’s pharmacist may dispense the wrong medication to a patient. These errors can cause life-threatening side effects and even lead to death. A skilled medical malpractice lawyer can review your care timeline and records to determine if successive institutional health caregivers displayed negligence below reasonable standards that cumulatively worsened your outcomes when ethical treatment could have made the difference.
Two cardiologists and a medical administrative assistant have filed a federal lawsuit against Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. They claim that more than one patient died at the hospital due to substandard care. They also allege retaliation, discrimination and a hostile work environment.
A critical hearing is scheduled to take place this week in which plaintiff Marybeth Lakso seeks permission to amend her complaint to seek punitive damages against Good Samaritan Hospital and its parent company, HCA Healthcare, Inc., a $95 billion healthcare conglomerate.
Birth Injury
Unlike birth defects, birth injuries reflect physical trauma resulting from medical errors during the labor and delivery process. Moreover, they often enable families to pursue legal action for financial compensation.
Injuries can range from mild to severe and have lasting impacts on the family’s wellbeing and lifelong care needs. Some examples include Horner syndrome, a condition where the nerves that control the eyelids are damaged and cause drooping eyes; Klumpke’s palsy, which results from brachial plexus nerve damage and causes weakness of the arms and hands; and shoulder dystocia, which occurs when a baby’s shoulder gets stuck behind the mother’s pubic bone during delivery. The best way to explore your options is to talk to a knowledgeable lawyer. Generally, adults have up to three years to file a lawsuit; minors have until their eighth birthday.