Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney Malpractice Lawyer

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

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

Hastings Law Firm handles Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney lawsuits in McKinney, Texas, over childbirth and newborn care, nursing care, surgery and stroke care. Our hospital malpractice lawyers work from the hospital’s own charts and consult physicians who practice in the same field as the providers involved. We then document where the care fell short and the harm it did to the patient’s life.

The cases we see most often at a hospital with Level III maternal and NICU care and neuroscience services like Baylor Scott & White McKinney include:

• Labor, delivery, and NICU errors. Signs of distress during labor may not be acted on, a delivery may come too late, or a sick or premature newborn’s condition can be missed or treated late. An injury at the start of life can affect a child’s development for years and change how the whole family lives. Our Dallas birth injury lawyers place the fetal monitoring strips beside the labor nursing notes and the NICU chart to show when each change was recorded and answered.
• Nursing care failures. A change in a patient’s condition can go unreported, monitoring can lapse, or a medication can be given in error on a hospital unit or in intensive care. The result can be a preventable decline, another procedure, or the loss of a loved one. Our Dallas nurse malpractice lawyers compare the flow sheets and medication administration records with the physician orders.
• Spine, neurosurgery, and joint replacement errors, and delayed stroke care. A mistake can occur during spine surgery, neurosurgery, or a joint replacement, and a stroke can go unrecognized or untreated until the time for treatment has passed. Either can leave lasting weakness, lost mobility, or the need for another operation. Our Dallas surgical error lawyers read the operative report against the neurological checks 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 McKinney on Highway 380

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney, a not-for-profit hospital, sits at 5252 West University Drive, at Highway 380 and Lake Forest Drive, in McKinney, Texas. Part of Baylor Scott & White Health, it has more than 150 beds. Among its services are emergency care, labor and delivery, a NICU, intensive care, surgery, and neuroscience.

Emergency care at the hospital is available at any hour, every day of the week. Its women’s health services include the Labor and Delivery Unit and the New Family Unit, along with a Level III NICU with private suites. Neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners and neonatal nurses make up the NICU team.

The hospital states that the State of Texas has designated its maternal care program and its NICU at Level III. The state’s maternal care roster and its neonatal roster both list the hospital.

Critical and intensive care, surgical services, heart and vascular care, and imaging and radiology are all offered on the campus. Its neuroscience services cover neurosurgery, stroke care, sleep medicine and spine care, and the Joint Commission has designated it a Primary Stroke Center. The orthopedics program offers minimally invasive surgery and total joint replacement, including shoulder arthroscopy and reconstructive, traumatic and replacement surgery.

After a birth, a mother may recover in the New Family Unit while her newborn is treated in the NICU. An emergency patient may be sent for imaging, then to surgery or intensive care, and every team that treats the patient, nurses included, writes its own record. Our McKinney medical malpractice lawyers set those records side by side to follow the care from one team to the next.

Our firm also represents patients of Medical City McKinney, a separate hospital in the same city. Patients of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Irving and Baylor University Medical Center, two other Baylor Scott & White Health hospitals, turn to us as well.

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

Patients hurt at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney can sue the hospital, a treating physician, or both, based on whose negligent care caused the harm. Each defendant must be served an expert report within 120 days after its original answer is filed, under Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code.

A hospital can answer for its employees’ negligence and for its own institutional choices, such as how it staffs its units. A physician carries responsibility for the medical decisions he or she made. The chart and the hospital’s staffing records identify who employed each provider, and that determines which parties a claim names.

Not every complication or poor result means someone was negligent. When an injury was avoidable, the people responsible for it should be held accountable. Finding those people is the first job of a lawyer to sue a hospital, and it shapes any lawsuit against Baylor Scott & White McKinney.

Nurses are part of that question, since whether a hospital answers for a nurse’s care depends on who employed the nurse. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers cover how claims against a hospital and a physician differ.

Is Baylor Scott & White McKinney Responsible for a Nurse’s Mistake Under Texas Law?

Baylor Scott & White McKinney can be responsible for a nurse’s mistake under Texas law when the nurse was its employee acting within the job. In Painter v. Amerimex Drilling I, the Texas Supreme Court said an employer is vicariously liable for an employee’s negligent acts within the course and scope of employment. Vicarious liability places responsibility for one person’s fault on another because of their relationship.

That rule depends on two facts, whether the hospital employed the nurse, and whether the nurse was doing that job when the mistake happened. A nurse employed by a staffing agency or a physician group can change who is responsible. The records and staffing documents show who employed each nurse.

The Texas Supreme Court has heard a claim against a hospital for vicarious liability premised on the negligence of its employee nurses, in Abshire v. Christus Health Southeast Texas. Section 74.001 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code lists both a registered nurse and a health care institution as health care providers. A nursing claim therefore follows the same Chapter 74 rules on notice, the expert report and the filing deadline.

For a family, the nursing notes, flow sheets, monitoring strips and medication records show what nurses observed, what they did, and at what time. Our attorneys and medical professionals read those entries alongside the physician orders. Our Texas nurse malpractice lawyers handle claims built on those records.

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

In McKinney, Texas, Hastings Law Firm works with injured patients and families on claims arising from treatment at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney. Our hospital malpractice lawyers handle the claim from the first call through settlement or trial, including the records, the medical experts, and every contact with the hospital’s insurer.

A member of our intake team answers your first call, and a relative may phone on the patient’s behalf. Tell us what happened and who was involved, as best you recall. Our team works to make sure you are heard, because your account guides the first look at the records.

We then gather the full medical records ourselves. Our attorneys and medical professionals examine the emergency, labor and delivery, NICU, operative and nursing records and set out each step of the care in order. When our hospital negligence lawyers accept a case, those records and the medical experts qualified to explain them become its foundation.

From then on, the hospital, its insurer and its lawyers speak with us rather than with your family. Our board-certified patient advocates contact you whenever there is news in your case and answer questions in everyday language. Our hospital malpractice attorneys negotiate for a settlement matched to the injury’s full financial and personal cost. If no offer reaches that figure, we are prepared to take your case to a jury.

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

Hastings Law Firm reviews hospital malpractice claims for McKinney, Texas, patients and families harmed during treatment at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney. Our Dallas medical malpractice lawyers examine what went wrong, which providers were involved, 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 what you tell us remains confidential. There is no fee unless we win. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.