Abrazo Arrowhead Campus Malpractice Lawyer

Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Abrazo Arrowhead Campus Patients and Families

The Types of Abrazo Arrowhead Campus Lawsuits Our Hospital Malpractice Attorneys Handle

Hastings Law Firm handles Abrazo Arrowhead Campus lawsuits in Glendale, Arizona, over birth and newborn care, weight-loss, spine and joint surgery, and heart and stroke emergencies. Our hospital malpractice lawyers build each lawsuit from the labor, operative, and emergency records, read in the order the care happened. We compare each decision with what a careful team would have done and document what each injury has cost each family.

The cases we see most often at a Glendale hospital with labor and delivery, a NICU and a surgical residency like Abrazo Arrowhead include:

• Injuries to a mother or baby during birth and NICU care. A warning sign in labor can go unanswered, a delivery can come too late, or an error can happen in a newborn’s care in the NICU. A child can be left with lifelong medical needs while a mother works through her own recovery. Our Phoenix birth injury attorneys read the fetal heart monitoring record hour by hour against the delivery and NICU charts to find the moment care should have changed.
• Preventable harm from bariatric, spine and joint operations. A mistake can happen during the operation itself, or a leak, bleeding, an infection or a blood clot can go unnoticed in the days that follow. The patient can need another surgery, a longer hospital stay, and additional recovery time before returning to work and family. Our Arizona bariatric surgeon malpractice lawyers trace the operative report, the vital signs and the lab results after surgery to show when the warning signs first appeared.
• Heart rhythm, chest pain and stroke symptoms misread in the ER. Chest pain, an irregular heartbeat or the early signs of a stroke can be treated as something less serious, or the right treatment can begin too late. Lost time can mean lasting heart damage, paralysis, trouble speaking, or the loss of a life. Our Arizona stroke misdiagnosis attorneys set the times of triage, imaging, test results and treatment side by side to measure each delay.

While these are common claim types, our hospital malpractice attorneys handle any valid medical negligence case that arises at this hospital.

About Abrazo Arrowhead Campus in Glendale

Abrazo Arrowhead Campus is an acute-care hospital at 18701 North 67th Avenue in Glendale, in Maricopa County. The hospital is part of Abrazo Health, which is owned by Tenet Healthcare, a for-profit company. Services at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus include emergency care, labor and delivery with a NICU, heart and stroke care, and general, orthopedic, spine, weight-loss and robotic surgery.

Medicare lists the hospital under the name Abrazo Arrowhead Hospital. Other hospitals in the Abrazo network include Abrazo West Campus, Abrazo Central Campus and Abrazo Scottsdale Campus. Elsewhere in the metro, Banner Health operates Banner Boswell Medical Center in Sun City and Banner Estrella Medical Center in Phoenix.

Abrazo Arrowhead has an emergency room and a labor and delivery unit. An OB hospitalist, an obstetric physician based in the hospital, is on site around the clock, as are dedicated anesthesia staff and a neonatal nurse practitioner. High-risk pregnancies are coordinated with a perinatal consultant when needed. Newborns who need extra care go to a special care nursery that Abrazo also calls its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU.

Heart services on the campus include interventional cardiology, cardiovascular care and electrophysiology, which treats heart rhythm problems. Abrazo identifies Arrowhead as a DNV-certified Primary Stroke Center and lists its weight-loss surgery program as accredited by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program. Surgeons there also perform general surgery, orthopedic surgery including knee and hip replacement, minimally invasive spine surgery and da Vinci robotic surgery.

The hospital is the primary site of Abrazo’s General Surgery and Internal Medicine residency programs, which train physicians who have finished medical school.

Can You File a Lawsuit Against Abrazo Arrowhead Campus, the Doctor, or Both?

You may be able to file a lawsuit against Abrazo Arrowhead Campus, a doctor, or both, depending on who erred and how each provider was tied to the hospital. Under Kopp v. Physician Group of Arizona, a hospital answers for negligence by its own employees acting within their jobs, a rule called vicarious liability.

A claim can name an obstetrician, a surgeon, an emergency physician, a nurse, a physician group, or several of them together. Whether the hospital also answers for a physician it does not employ depends on the facts of that relationship.

Arizona law places a medical expert’s opinion near the front of a malpractice case. With the claim, the patient files a written statement certifying whether expert testimony is necessary to prove it. When it is, a sworn preliminary expert opinion affidavit under A.R.S. 12-2603 must be served with the first disclosures in the case.

That affidavit sets out the expert’s qualifications, the facts behind each claim, the acts that fell below the standard of care, and how they caused the harm. A court can dismiss a claim that is missing an affidavit the law requires. The expert must also fit the provider. Under A.R.S. 12-2604, a standard of care witness generally has to share the defendant’s specialty, and hold the same board certification when the defendant is board certified.

A claim that involves several providers can therefore call for several experts, one matched to each. Identifying every responsible provider and the right expert for each one is early work for a lawyer to sue a hospital. Our Phoenix hospital malpractice lawyers explain how these rules apply to a claim against a hospital in Glendale.

How Much Time Do Parents Have to Sue After a Birth Injury at Abrazo Arrowhead in Arizona?

Parents of a child injured at birth at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus generally have until the child turns twenty to file the child’s own claim in Arizona. Under A.R.S. 12-502, the years before age eighteen do not count, and the child then has the same two years as any adult patient.

The period itself is two years, the general limit for a malpractice claim under A.R.S. 12-542. For a claim that is not paused, the two years start when the family knew, or reasonably should have known, that negligence may have caused the injury. Some birth injuries, such as a brain injury from a lack of oxygen, show themselves only as a child misses developmental milestones. The clock does not wait for a lawyer or a medical expert to confirm that malpractice happened.

Even with extra time, the evidence does not keep. A birth injury claim is built from the labor and delivery record, the fetal monitoring strips and the NICU chart. The nurses and physicians who remember the delivery also move on to other roles. Our Arizona NICU malpractice lawyers request those records at the start of a review, while the people involved can still be found.

For a family, these rules mean that no one should have to guess at a deadline. Each person’s time limit is worked out from the records at the beginning of a case. A family does not have to prove anything before calling us.

How We Work With Injured Abrazo Arrowhead Patients and Their Families

Hastings Law Firm handles hospital malpractice claims for Abrazo Arrowhead Campus patients and families in Glendale, Arizona, from the first call through settlement or trial. Our attorneys and medical professionals take on the records, the experts, and the hospital’s lawyers at each stage, so the family can keep its attention on the patient.

A call to our hospital malpractice lawyers about care at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus is answered by a member of our intake team. A spouse, a parent or an adult child can make that call for a patient too ill to do it. Describe the care, the people involved and what you were told afterward, as far as you remember it. Our team works to make sure you are heard, and your account shapes where our review begins.

The complete medical records come next, and our team requests them for you. Our attorneys and medical professionals study the labor record, the operative and anesthesia notes, the emergency chart and the medication orders to build a timeline of each decision. If our hospital negligence lawyers accept your case, that timeline and the physicians qualified to explain it carry the claim.

Once we represent you, the hospital, its insurers and its attorneys communicate with us rather than with you. Our board-certified patient advocates stay in contact with you, explain each development in plain language, and answer your questions as they come up. Our hospital malpractice attorneys negotiate for a settlement that reflects the full effect of the injury on your family. When an offer falls short, we are ready to try the case before a jury.

If You or a Loved One Were Injured at Abrazo Arrowhead, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

Hastings Law Firm takes on hospital malpractice claims in Glendale, Arizona, for patients and families hurt by care at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus. Our hospital negligence lawyers look into which providers may be responsible, and they tell a family plainly when a hard outcome was not malpractice.

Our team is here for you. We perform a free case review to find out whether you have a valid claim. Our Phoenix medical malpractice lawyers represent patients across the Phoenix area, what you share with us stays confidential, and there is no fee unless we win. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.