Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Grapevine Malpractice Lawyer

Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Baylor Scott & White Grapevine Patients and Families

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

Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers take on Baylor Scott & White Grapevine lawsuits in Grapevine, Texas, over emergency and trauma care, childbirth and newborn care, and surgery. We build every lawsuit from the patient’s own hospital chart. Our attorneys work with qualified medical experts to prove how the care fell below accepted practice and what that cost the family.

The cases we see most often at a trauma and maternity hospital like Baylor Scott & White Grapevine include:

• Emergency and trauma care errors. Bleeding or organ damage from a car crash or a fall can be missed on imaging, or found and left untreated too long, and a heart attack, stroke or brain bleed can be recognized late. Discharge can also come before a dangerous cause of the symptoms was excluded, and the hours lost can turn a treatable condition into a permanent disability or a death. When a claim involves a missed or delayed diagnosis, we line up arrival times, scan orders, radiology reads and physician notes to show when the answer was within reach.
• Labor, delivery and newborn care errors. Warning signs on the fetal heart rate tracing can be left unanswered, a high-risk pregnancy can be delivered later than it should be, and a mother’s hemorrhage, infection or dangerous blood pressure can be missed. In the NICU, a premature baby’s breathing, blood sugar or infection problem can go unrecognized, and the harm can shape a child’s whole life and the family’s with it. Our birth injury lawyers read the fetal monitoring strips minute by minute against the nursing and physician notes and the newborn’s chart.
• Surgical errors. A nerve, blood vessel or organ can be injured during general, orthopedic, spine or brain surgery, or a bleed, clot or infection afterward can go uncaught. Anesthesia or monitoring can also fail, leaving a patient facing more operations and additional recovery time. Our surgical error attorneys trace each operation through the operative report, the anesthesia record and the post-operative monitoring.

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 Grapevine on West College Street

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Grapevine is a not-for-profit hospital at 1650 W. College Street in Grapevine, Texas, in Tarrant County, and part of Baylor Scott & White Health. Its services include a 24/7 emergency department, Level II trauma care, labor and delivery with a Level III NICU, and surgery. The hospital also lists critical care, heart and vascular care, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, and imaging.

Emergency medicine physicians and nurses trained in trauma and critical care staff the emergency department, which has a CT scanner inside it and emergency MRI. The hospital says the American College of Surgeons has verified it as a Level II Trauma Center. The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) also lists it as a Major (Level II) trauma facility.

For mothers and babies, the hospital offers labor and delivery, high-risk pregnancy care, and fetal monitoring, and it describes a Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A NICU is the unit where premature and seriously ill newborns receive intensive care. DSHS lists the hospital at Maternal Level III and, on its roster of Texas neonatal facilities, at Neonatal Level III.

One patient’s care there can pass through emergency, trauma, obstetric, surgical, intensive care and nursing teams, and each keeps its own part of the chart. Our Grapevine medical malpractice lawyers handle claims at other hospitals in the area too. Among them are Baylor Scott & White All Saints, another Baylor Scott & White Health hospital, located in Fort Worth, as well as Medical City Fort Worth.

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

A patient harmed at Baylor Scott & White Grapevine may be able to sue the hospital, a doctor, or both, depending on who gave the care and who employed them. The Texas Supreme Court has held that a hospital answers for the negligence of its employees, such as its nurses, acting within the scope of their work. Each physician answers for their own care.

Who employed or contracted each provider is a question of fact, and the medical records and the hospital’s documents answer it. For a physician the hospital does not employ, responsibility depends on whether the hospital held that physician out as its own and on facts showing the patient relied on it.

Anyone who wants a lawyer to sue a hospital should expect this question first, since the answer decides who is named in a Baylor Scott & White Grapevine lawsuit. Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code then gives the patient 120 days after each defendant answers to serve a qualified expert’s report. Before a suit can be filed, every provider is owed written notice with a medical authorization. Our Fort Worth hospital malpractice lawyers explain how these rules work together.

Treatment in a hospital carries risk, and an outcome that disappoints a family is not always the result of negligence. Where an injury was preventable, the people and the institution responsible should be held accountable.

What Medical Records Authorization Must a Family Give Before Suing Baylor Scott & White Grapevine in Texas?

A family suing Baylor Scott & White Grapevine or a doctor must send a medical authorization with its pre-suit notice. Section 74.052 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code sets out the form. Without the authorization, proceedings against the provider that received the notice are abated, or put on hold, until 60 days after that provider receives a compliant form.

The notice is sent by certified mail at least 60 days ahead of filing, and proper notice pauses the filing deadline until 75 days after it is given. The authorization that travels with it decides which of the patient’s records the providers can obtain.

The form reaches two sets of records. The first is the health information and billing records of the physicians and providers who examined or treated the patient for the injuries in the claim. The second is the same kind of records from providers who treated the patient during the five years before the incident.

The patient can also hold some things back. The form lists providers whose records the patient contends are not relevant to the claim, and the authorization does not reach them. By initialing, the patient or a legal representative can exclude HIV/AIDS test results and treatment, drug, alcohol or substance abuse treatment, and genetic information. Mental health records other than psychotherapy notes can be excluded the same way.

If the patient later modifies or revokes the authorization, the provider may put the case on hold until 60 days after it receives a replacement form that meets the statute. For a family, the form is a privacy decision as well as a filing step, and it has to be completed with care. Our attorneys prepare the notice and the authorization together for each provider the claim names.

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

Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers work with Grapevine, Texas, families on negligence claims involving Baylor Scott & White Grapevine, from the first call to a settlement or verdict. That call is answered by a member of our intake team, and a relative can place it for a patient who is unable to. We work to make sure you are heard, and your account is where our review begins.

We request the complete medical records on your behalf. Our attorneys and medical professionals go through the emergency and trauma records, the imaging, the labor and delivery records with the fetal monitoring strips, and any NICU records. They also study the surgical and anesthesia records, the nursing notes and the discharge instructions to establish what was done, what was missed, and when. Once our hospital negligence lawyers take your case, we build it on those records and on qualified experts who can explain them.

From then on, we handle every contact with the hospital, its insurer and its lawyers. Our board-certified patient advocates keep in contact with you and explain each development in plain language when it happens. We seek a settlement equal to what the injury has taken from your family, and when an offer falls short, a jury is where we take the case.

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

Hastings Law Firm’s hospital negligence lawyers perform a free case review for any Grapevine, Texas, patient or family harmed during care at Baylor Scott & White Grapevine. The review examines the treatment the patient was given and who may be responsible for it. You learn whether you have a valid claim, and everything you tell us is kept confidential.

Our team is here for you. There is no fee unless we win. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.