Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano Malpractice Lawyer

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

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

Hastings Law Firm handles Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano lawsuits in Plano, Texas, arising from surgery, nursing and fall safety, and emergency and stroke care. Our hospital malpractice lawyers ground every claim in the hospital chart and in testimony from qualified medical experts. We then show where the care broke down and how the injury has changed the patient’s life.

The cases we see most often at a surgical and neuroscience hospital like Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano include:

• Orthopedic, general, weight loss, and neurosurgery errors. Something can go wrong during the procedure, or a complication can surface afterward and go unrecognized. Setting it right can take another operation, additional recovery time, and more days in the hospital. Our surgical error lawyers in Dallas compare the operative note with the post-surgical monitoring and nursing checks to pinpoint when the problem began.
• Hospital falls and nursing safety failures. A patient known to be at risk can be left unmonitored or without help, fall precautions can go unfollowed, or a change in condition can go unreported. A fall or an unanswered decline can lead to a fracture or head injury, further surgery, months of rehabilitation, or the loss of a loved one. Our nursing malpractice attorneys in Dallas examine the fall-risk assessments, nursing notes and staffing records to learn what the staff knew and when.
• Stroke and emergency diagnosis delays. Stroke symptoms, or the warning signs of another emergency, can be missed, or treatment can begin too late, whether the patient is in the Emergency Department or already admitted to a unit. Lost time can leave lasting weakness, lost speech, or life-threatening consequences. Our misdiagnosis attorneys in Dallas reconstruct the hours between the first symptoms and the first treatment from the triage notes, imaging times and physician orders.

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 Plano on Alliance Boulevard

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano, located at 4700 Alliance Boulevard in Plano, Texas, calls itself a not-for-profit hospital serving Plano and Collin County. The hospital is part of Baylor Scott & White Health and has more than 150 licensed beds. Its services include an Emergency Department, critical and intensive care, surgical services, orthopedics, and neurology and neurosurgery.

Inpatient medicine is provided with hospitalists, physicians who care for patients once they are admitted. Surgical services cover general surgery and bariatric, or weight loss, surgery. The hospital describes an all-RN nursing staff on its surgical services.

Its orthopedics program and its neuroscience services, which include neurology and neurosurgery, are both based at the Plano hospital. Imaging and radiology are offered as well, though some outpatient imaging takes place away from the main campus. The hospital also lists women’s health services.

One patient’s care may run from the Emergency Department through imaging, into surgery or intensive care, and on to a medical floor. Every team along the way documents its own part of that care. Our Plano medical malpractice lawyers line up those separate records to trace the care through every handoff.

We also represent patients of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, another hospital in Plano. Our clients include people treated at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney and Baylor University Medical Center, which also belong to Baylor Scott & White Health.

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

A patient can sue Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano, a physician who provided treatment, or both, based on whose negligence caused the injury. Under Baptist Memorial Hospital System v. Sampson, a Texas hospital answers for negligence by its employees acting within their employment. When the physician is an independent practitioner, the hospital’s responsibility needs a separate basis, such as ostensible agency.

Ostensible agency applies when the patient reasonably believed the physician worked for the hospital, because the hospital held the physician out that way, and the patient justifiably relied on it. A physician remains personally responsible for the medical decisions he or she made. Whether a provider was employed or contracted appears in the medical and staffing records, and that answer determines which defendants a claim includes.

Medical care involves risk, so an unwanted result is not proof of negligence on its own. If the injury could have been avoided, the providers whose care caused it should be held accountable. Identifying those providers comes first when you hire a lawyer to sue a hospital.

After a lawsuit against Baylor Scott & White Plano is filed, each defendant must generally be served an expert report. Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code puts that deadline at 120 days after the defendant’s original answer, and a missing report can end the claim. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers handle claims that name a hospital, its physicians, or both.

Is a Fall or Safety Injury at Baylor Scott & White Plano a Health Care Liability Claim Under Texas Law?

A fall or safety injury at Baylor Scott & White Plano can be a health care liability claim under Texas law, depending on the facts. The definition sits in Section 74.001(a)(13) of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. That definition reaches departures from accepted standards of “safety or professional or administrative services directly related to health care.”

The Texas Supreme Court has held that a patient’s claim based on a provider’s conduct during care, treatment, or confinement is presumed to fall under Chapter 74. It reached that conclusion in Loaisiga v. Cerda and Texas West Oaks Hospital v. Williams.

The presumption can be rebutted, so each claim’s facts decide the question. Calling a claim ordinary negligence, or giving it another label, does not by itself move it outside Chapter 74. Not every injury on hospital property is a health care liability claim either, since the substance of the claim and the provider conduct it describes are what count.

When Chapter 74 governs a fall claim, the pre-suit notice, the expert report and the damages limits all apply. A fall claim is therefore prepared like any other hospital malpractice claim. The nursing notes, fall-risk assessments, physician orders and staffing records show what the staff knew about a patient’s risk and what they did about it.

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

For patients and families in Plano, Texas, Hastings Law Firm handles claims that arise from care received at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano. Our hospital malpractice lawyers manage every stage, from the first call and the medical records to expert review and trial preparation.

The first person you speak with is a member of our intake team, and relatives are welcome to call on behalf of a patient. Describe what you saw, when it happened, and which staff members were involved, if you know. Our team works to make sure you are heard. Your description then guides where we look first in the chart.

Next, we collect the complete chart ourselves. Our attorneys and medical professionals then arrange the emergency, operative, intensive care and nursing entries, fall-risk assessments included, in the order the care happened. If our hospital negligence lawyers accept the case, those records and the opinions of qualified experts form its foundation.

From then on, our firm handles every conversation with the hospital, its insurer and its defense lawyers. Our board-certified patient advocates contact you when your case has a noteworthy development and explain it in plain terms. Our hospital malpractice attorneys seek a settlement equal to what the injury has cost you. 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 Plano, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

Hastings Law Firm, serving Plano, Texas, takes on hospital malpractice claims for patients and families hurt by care at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Plano. Our Dallas medical malpractice lawyers go over that care in detail to establish what went wrong and which providers are 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 stays between us. You owe no fee unless we win. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.