Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial Malpractice Lawyer

Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial Patients and Families

The Types of Baylor Scott & White Centennial Lawsuits Our Hospital Malpractice Attorneys Handle

Hastings Law Firm handles Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial lawsuits in Frisco, Texas, over injuries during childbirth, in newborn intensive care, and in emergency treatment. Our hospital malpractice lawyers trace each claim through the delivery, NICU and emergency charts alongside physicians qualified in the same specialties. From those charts we identify where treatment departed from accepted practice and measure what the injury has taken from the patient.

The cases we see most often at a hospital with trauma, maternal and newborn care like Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial include:

• Labor, delivery, and birth injuries. Signs of fetal distress or a complication in the mother can go unanswered, or a cesarean can come later than the situation called for. A mother or baby hurt during delivery can face years of treatment, therapy and changes to daily family life. Our Dallas birth injury attorneys compare the fetal heart tracings against the obstetric orders to fix the time of each decision.
• NICU care errors. A newborn’s breathing, feeding, infection or medication problem can go unrecognized or untreated, or the monitoring of a fragile infant can lapse. A delay at that stage can leave lasting harm to a child’s lungs, brain or development. Our Dallas pediatric malpractice lawyers go through the NICU flow sheets, lab values and medication entries in time order.
• Emergency and trauma care delays. An injury, a stroke or another emergency may not be recognized, treated or transferred in time. Treatment that comes too late can leave a lasting disability or end in the loss of a loved one. Our Texas emergency room malpractice attorneys reconstruct each hour of the visit using triage notes, imaging reports and transfer records.

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

About Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial in Frisco

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial is a 118-bed hospital at 12505 Lebanon Road in Frisco, Texas, serving people in Collin and Denton County. It belongs to Baylor Scott & White Health, a not-for-profit health system. The hospital offers emergency and trauma care, childbirth services, a Level II NICU, surgery, and critical and intensive care.

The emergency department treats strokes and other emergencies, and the hospital calls itself a Level III trauma center. The Texas Department of State Health Services trauma facility roster lists it with the same Advanced, Level III, designation.

The hospital’s women’s health services include a labor and delivery unit with dedicated labor, delivery and recovery rooms and operating rooms for cesarean births. Centennial is a Level III facility on the state’s maternal care roster. Its neonatal intensive care unit appears at Level II on the state’s neonatal roster.

Surgery in Frisco covers general, orthopedic, robotic, spine, hand and urology procedures. The campus also provides cardiovascular and diagnostic services, including catheterization and interventional cardiology. Patients who need open-heart or robotic heart surgery may be transferred to Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital in Plano. Stroke treatment, outpatient radiology and diagnostic imaging, rehabilitation and physical therapy, pediatrics, and diabetes care complete the list.

Around a birth, a mother and newborn can move from the delivery room to surgery to the NICU, with every team charting separately. Our Frisco medical malpractice lawyers set those charts side by side to see what happened at each handoff.

We also represent patients from Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney and Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano, two nearby hospitals in the same system. Baylor University Medical Center, the system’s hospital in Dallas, is another where families have turned to us.

Can You File a Lawsuit Against Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial, the Doctor, or Both?

You can sue Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial, a physician who treated you there, or both, depending on whose negligence caused the harm. Baptist Memorial Hospital System v. Sampson makes a hospital liable for an employee’s negligence within the scope of employment. A nonemployee physician’s care reaches the hospital only on another basis, such as ostensible agency.

Separately, a hospital is accountable for its own institutional choices, and each physician answers personally for the treatment he or she chose. Ostensible agency has three parts under Sampson. The patient reasonably thought the physician was the hospital’s employee or agent, and the hospital caused that belief by holding the physician out that way or knowingly permitting it. The patient must also have justifiably relied on it, and receiving treatment at the hospital does not meet the test by itself.

Employment and contract status for each provider comes out of the records, and it determines who is named. When the injured patient is a child, a parent can bring the claim on the child’s behalf. Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code sets a 120-day clock, starting with each defendant’s original answer, for serving that defendant an expert report.

Sorting out those relationships is early work for any lawyer to sue a hospital, and it comes before a lawsuit against Baylor Scott & White Centennial is filed. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers explain how a claim against a hospital differs from a claim against a physician.

Medicine carries risk, and a poor result does not by itself mean negligence. When harm was avoidable, the providers behind it should be held accountable.

Does a Child Injured at Birth at Baylor Scott & White Centennial Have Longer to File Under Texas Law?

A child injured at birth at Baylor Scott & White Centennial generally has longer to file in Texas. A child hurt before age 12 may file until the 14th birthday under Section 74.251 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, while most claims have two years. The Texas Supreme Court’s open-courts decisions limit the 14th-birthday rule where it would end the child’s claim before the child could sue.

Section 74.251 also sets an outer limit. A claim generally cannot be filed later than ten years from the date of the act or omission, a limit separate from the two-year period and the age-14 rule.

The open-courts limit comes from the Texas Constitution, which protects a person’s right to seek a remedy in court for an injury caused by someone else’s wrongful act. In Sax v. Votteler, the Texas Supreme Court held an earlier limitations statute unconstitutional as applied to minors, because a young child cannot bring a suit alone. The court applied that holding to the law that preceded Section 74.251 in Weiner v. Wasson.

Those decisions do not set one later deadline that fits every child. Whether the limit reaches a particular claim depends on the child’s age, the dates of the care and the facts, and it takes case-specific legal review. The age-14 rule can still apply, so no family should count on the open-courts cases for extra time.

For a birth injury, waiting is not a safe plan. The delivery records, fetal monitoring and NICU chart are simplest to collect soon after the birth, and the nurses and physicians who wrote them are easier to identify.

How We Work With Injured Baylor Scott & White Centennial Patients and Their Families

Hastings Law Firm guides patients and families in Frisco, Texas, through each stage of a claim involving Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial. Our hospital malpractice lawyers start with the family’s account, then gather and study the chart with our medical professionals. We keep the family informed as the claim moves toward settlement or trial.

A member of our intake team answers your first call, and a spouse, parent or adult child may make it for a patient who is unable to. Share what you remember about the care, such as the unit, the dates and the names of anyone who treated you. Our team works to make sure you are heard, and what you tell us points our review toward the right records.

Next, we collect the complete medical records. Our attorneys and medical professionals work page by page through the labor and delivery, fetal monitoring, NICU, emergency and nursing charts to set out the sequence of care. If our hospital negligence lawyers accept a case, those pages and the qualified experts who can explain them form its base.

From there, the hospital, its insurer and their attorneys speak with our firm rather than with you. Our board-certified patient advocates contact you when something important happens in your case and answer questions in plain terms. Our hospital malpractice attorneys press for a settlement equal to the harm your family has suffered. When an offer falls short, we are prepared to take your case to a jury.

If You or a Loved One Were Injured at Baylor Scott & White Centennial, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

Hastings Law Firm examines malpractice claims for Frisco, Texas, patients and families who believe a preventable error at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial caused harm. Our hospital negligence lawyers trace the treatment, name each provider involved, and tell you plainly whether the hospital, a physician, or both appear responsible.

Our team is here for you. We perform a free case review to find out whether you have a valid claim. Everything you share with us remains confidential, and there is no fee unless we win. Contact us to understand your options.