Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway Malpractice Lawyer

Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway Patients and Families

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

Hastings Law Firm brings Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway lawsuits in Frisco, Texas, for mothers, newborns, emergency patients and surgical patients. Our hospital malpractice lawyers build each claim from the hospital’s own record of that patient’s care. We then work with physicians in the same specialty to show where treatment fell below accepted practice and what the harm has cost.

The cases we see most often at a community hospital like Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway include:

• Labor, delivery, and postpartum errors. Fetal distress or a labor complication may not be acted on, a mother’s bleeding or blood pressure after delivery may go untreated too long, or a newborn’s condition may be missed. One delivery can leave both a mother and a baby needing months or years of care. Our Dallas birth injury lawyers line up the fetal heart tracings, the delivery note and the postpartum checks to establish when each warning appeared.
• Emergency care errors. A heart attack, stroke, infection or internal bleeding can go unrecognized or be treated too late, and a patient can be sent home before the danger has passed. The lost time can mean permanent damage to the heart or brain, or the loss of a loved one. Our Dallas medical misdiagnosis lawyers rebuild the visit from the triage entries, lab results, imaging and discharge instructions.
• Surgical and cardiac procedure errors. In an operating room or a cardiac procedure room, an injury to a nearby organ or vessel can go unnoticed, an object can be left behind, or bleeding or infection afterward can go untreated. Correcting the harm can take another operation, a longer admission and additional recovery time. Our Dallas surgical error lawyers set the procedure report against the anesthesia record and the recovery notes.

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 Frisco at PGA Parkway

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway is a hospital at 7600 Better Way in Frisco, Texas, and part of Baylor Scott & White Health. According to its campus page, the hospital is open 24 hours and provides emergency and trauma care, childbirth services, surgery, heart and vascular care, and imaging.

Its labor and delivery service occupies what the hospital calls a dedicated women’s floor. That floor holds labor and delivery rooms, postpartum recovery and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where newborns who need closer medical attention are cared for.

The surgical facilities include operating rooms and cardiac procedure rooms, and imaging services include a Women’s Imaging Center. A mother and her newborn can move from labor and delivery to postpartum recovery or the NICU. A patient can go from the emergency department to an operating room or a cardiac procedure room. Each of those teams keeps its own record, and our Frisco medical malpractice lawyers read those records together to follow the care from one team to the next.

We also represent patients of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial, another Baylor Scott & White hospital in Frisco. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney is a system hospital nearby in McKinney. Each is a separate hospital with its own page, as is Texas Health Hospital Frisco, a different hospital in the same city.

Can You File a Lawsuit Against Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway, the Doctor, or Both?

A patient can sue Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway, a treating physician, or both, depending on whose care caused the harm. Under Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, an expert report supporting the claim is due within 120 days after each defendant files its answer.

The hospital can be responsible for the negligence of its employees, such as nurses and staff, when they act within the scope of their work. A physician answers for the care he or she personally provided. Who employed or contracted each provider comes from the records and the arrangements between them, not from the name on the building.

Medicine carries risk, and a poor result does not by itself mean anyone was negligent. When an injury could have been prevented, the providers responsible should be held accountable. Identifying them is the first task of a lawyer to sue a hospital, and it decides who is named in any lawsuit against Baylor Scott & White PGA Parkway.

A report that is never served can lead to dismissal of the claim and an award of the defendant’s fees. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers explain how a claim against a hospital differs from one against a physician. A doctor the hospital does not employ raises a separate question, answered under a doctrine called ostensible agency.

Can Baylor Scott & White PGA Parkway Be Responsible for a Delivery Doctor It Does Not Employ Under Texas Law?

Baylor Scott & White PGA Parkway can answer for a delivery doctor it does not employ, such as an obstetrician or anesthesiologist, only if the family proves ostensible agency. The Texas Supreme Court set the three elements of that doctrine in Baptist Memorial Hospital System v. Sampson in 1998. Being treated at the hospital does not establish them.

Ostensible agency means the hospital led the patient to accept a doctor as its own. The patient must have reasonably believed the doctor worked for the hospital. The hospital itself must have created that belief, by presenting the doctor as its own or knowingly letting the doctor do so, and the patient must have relied on it.

At a delivery, the records answer each of those elements. They show how the mother came to that obstetrician, through her own prenatal care or through the hospital. The admission and consent papers show what she was told about who the physicians worked for, and badges and introductions add to that picture. The anesthesia record shows who arranged the anesthesia and whether she had any part in choosing that doctor.

The hospital’s responsibility for its own nurses and staff on the women’s floor is a separate matter. When they are employees acting within the scope of their work, the hospital can answer for their care whether or not a doctor was its agent. The physician remains responsible for his or her own care either way. Our Dallas OB-GYN malpractice lawyers read the prenatal file, labor record and anesthesia record together to see which rules apply.

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

In Frisco, Texas, Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers handle claims over care at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway. We carry each claim from the first phone call to settlement or trial. Our team gathers the records, retains the physicians who review them, and manages every exchange with the hospital’s insurer.

The first call reaches a member of our intake team, and a spouse, parent or adult child can place it for a patient who cannot. Tell us what happened, where in the hospital it happened and who was there, as far as you know. Our team works to make sure you are heard, and your account is where our review begins.

We then request the complete records ourselves. Our attorneys and medical professionals read the delivery, NICU, emergency and procedure records to see what was done, what was missed and when. If our hospital negligence lawyers take your case, it rests on those records and on the medical experts who can explain them.

From then on, the hospital, its insurer and its defense lawyers deal with us instead of your family. Our board-certified patient advocates keep in contact with you and explain each development in plain language as it happens. Our hospital malpractice attorneys push for a settlement that reflects the full cost of the injury. 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 PGA Parkway, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

Hastings Law Firm’s malpractice lawyers review hospital negligence claims for Frisco, Texas, patients and families hurt during care at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Frisco at PGA Parkway. Our free review looks at what went wrong, which providers took part, and whether the hospital, a physician, or both can be held responsible.

Our team is here for you. We perform a free case review to find out whether you have a valid claim, and everything you tell us stays confidential. You pay no fee unless we win. Contact us to understand your options.