Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving Malpractice Lawyer

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

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

Hastings Law Firm handles Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving lawsuits in Irving, Texas, involving childbirth and newborn care, heart and stroke care, and surgery. Our hospital malpractice lawyers build each lawsuit around a timeline of the patient’s care, taken from the hospital’s own records. We bring in physicians from the matching specialty to show where care fell short and what that cost the family.

The cases we see most often at a community hospital with a Level II NICU and a primary stroke center like Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving include:

• Labor, delivery, and newborn care errors. Signs of trouble for a mother or baby can go unanswered during labor, delivery, or recovery, or in the NICU afterward. A child may need therapy and specialist care well into the future, and a mother’s own recovery can take longer. Our Dallas birth injury attorneys work through the fetal heart tracings, the delivery record, and the NICU flow sheets hour by hour to show how staff responded to each change.
• Heart attack and stroke care that comes too late. The warning signs of a heart attack or stroke can be missed or treated late, in the emergency department or on a hospital floor. Delay can let damage to the heart or brain become permanent, and in the worst cases it can end in the loss of a loved one. Our Dallas medical misdiagnosis lawyers build a minute-by-minute account of the visit from the vital signs, the nursing assessments, and the physician orders.
• Surgical errors. Errors in heart, vascular, orthopedic, and general surgery include items left in the body and operations on the wrong site, as well as complications no one catches afterward. Correcting the harm can take another operation, more days in the hospital, and additional recovery time. Our Dallas surgical error lawyers compare the surgeon’s operative report with the recovery room and floor nursing 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 Irving on North MacArthur Boulevard

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving is a hospital at 1901 North MacArthur Boulevard in Irving, Texas. The hospital belongs to Baylor Scott & White Health, a not-for-profit health system, and describes itself as not-for-profit. Its services include 24-hour emergency care, labor and delivery, a Level II NICU, heart and vascular care, neuroscience, and orthopedic surgery.

The hospital’s emergency department is open 24 hours a day. For mothers, it offers a labor, delivery and recovery unit and care for high-risk pregnancies. The state’s roster of maternal care facilities lists Baylor Scott & White Irving at Level II. Newborns who need extra care go to a Level II neonatal intensive care unit, the level also listed on the state’s neonatal roster.

The heart and vascular program includes cardiothoracic and vascular surgery. The hospital’s neuroscience services include what it calls a Primary Stroke Center. Orthopedic care and general surgical services complete the list.

A surgical patient here moves through several teams, from pre-operative preparation to the operating room, the recovery area, and a hospital floor. Every one of those settings writes its own chart, and the story of a single operation is spread across all of them. Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas is part of the same Baylor Scott & White Health system.

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

A patient may sue Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving, a physician involved in the care, or both, when negligent care caused the injury. Which of them is named depends on who gave the care and who employed each provider. Under Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, the claim also needs an expert report served within 120 days after each defendant files its original answer.

A hospital is liable for negligence by the people on its payroll, such as its nurses, and for its own decisions as an institution. Each physician is liable for his or her own treatment of the patient. The records show who employed each provider, and that answer decides whom a claim names.

Medicine carries risk, and not every bad outcome is negligence. When an injury was preventable, whoever caused it should be held accountable. Identifying those providers is where a lawyer to sue a hospital begins, well before any Baylor Scott & White Irving lawsuit is filed.

The same question of who employed each provider arises at other Dallas-area hospitals, including Medical City Dallas Hospital. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers cover the separate paths to holding a hospital, its employees, or a physician responsible. Our Irving medical malpractice lawyers represent patients injured anywhere in Irving.

When Can Texas Law Presume Negligence After Surgery at Baylor Scott & White Irving?

Texas law lets a jury infer negligence after surgery without expert testimony only in narrow cases that its appellate courts had recognized by August 29, 1977. Section 74.201 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code sets that limit for health care liability claims. In Haddock v. Arnspiger, the Texas Supreme Court described those cases as matters plainly within the common knowledge of laymen.

The court’s examples were negligence in the use of mechanical instruments, operating on the wrong portion of the body, and leaving surgical instruments or sponges inside the body. The same opinion made clear that the rule is not automatic just because an instrument was used. When the use of an instrument is beyond ordinary common knowledge, the rule does not apply.

Most surgical claims fall outside those examples, so their proof still depends on medical experts. The expert report under Section 74.351 is part of every health care liability claim either way. That report fairly summarizes the expert’s opinions on the applicable standards of care, the ways the treatment fell short of them, and the causal link to the injury.

The records of the operation show which kind of claim a family has. The operative report, the sponge and instrument counts, and the recovery notes show what happened in the operating room. Our Texas surgical error lawyers read those records to see how a surgical claim will have to be proven.

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

Hastings Law Firm works with injured patients and grieving families in Irving, Texas, on malpractice claims after care at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving went wrong. Our lawyers see each claim through to its resolution, gathering the records, retaining medical experts, and dealing with the hospital’s insurer.

When you call, you speak first with a member of our intake team. A family member may place that call when the patient is not able to. Describe the care as you recall it, including dates and the people involved, and we will work to make sure you are heard.

Our office orders every page of the chart for you. Our attorneys and medical professionals then read the labor and delivery notes, NICU charting, emergency records, and operative reports, setting out each decision and its timing. If our hospital negligence lawyers take your case, it rests on those records and on the medical experts who can speak to them.

From then on, anyone speaking for the hospital or its insurance company talks to our firm instead of your family. Board-certified patient advocates on our staff reach out when your case develops and put each step into everyday terms. We press for a settlement equal to everything the injury has taken, and 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 Irving, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

Hastings Law Firm examines malpractice claims arising from Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving for injured patients and their relatives in Irving, Texas. Our Dallas medical malpractice lawyers study the course of treatment, the providers behind each step, and how that treatment compares with accepted practice.

Our team is here for you. We perform a free case review to find out whether you have a valid claim, and what you share with us stays confidential. You pay no fee unless we win. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.