Chandler Regional Medical Center Malpractice Lawyer

Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Chandler Regional Patients and Families

The Types of Chandler Regional Medical Center Lawsuits Our Hospital Malpractice Attorneys Handle

Hastings Law Firm handles Chandler Regional Medical Center malpractice lawsuits for patients and families harmed there in Chandler, Arizona. A Chandler Regional lawsuit can name the hospital, its employees, or the physicians and medical groups who care for patients there. Our attorneys handle claims over delayed stroke and emergency diagnoses, robotic, orthopedic and general surgery errors, and pregnancy, delivery and NICU injuries.

The cases we see most often at a Level I trauma center and community hospital like Chandler Regional include:

• Delayed stroke and emergency diagnoses. A stroke, a heart emergency or a serious injury can be missed or treated late in the emergency department or trauma center. The cost of that lost time can be permanent weakness, difficulty speaking, a damaged heart, or the loss of a loved one. Our Phoenix medical misdiagnosis lawyers set the triage notes, imaging orders and consult requests against the clock to show when treatment should have begun.
• Robotic, orthopedic and general surgery errors. A mistake can happen during the operation itself, an instrument can injure a nearby organ or nerve, or a complication can go unrecognized once the procedure is over. A patient may need corrective surgery, live with chronic pain, and face additional recovery time. Our Arizona robotic surgery malpractice lawyers compare the operative report with the anesthesia record and the recovery notes to find where the procedure or its aftercare went wrong.
• Pregnancy, delivery and NICU injuries. A high-risk pregnancy may not be managed as its warning signs called for, or a decision to deliver can come too late. Care for a newborn in the NICU can also fall behind the baby’s condition. A mother can suffer complications of her own, and a child can be left with lasting disabilities. Our Phoenix birth injury attorneys study the prenatal chart, the labor record and the NICU notes to pinpoint when a different decision was due.

While these are some of the more common claim types, our hospital malpractice attorneys handle any valid medical negligence case that arises at this hospital.

About Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center

Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center is an acute care community hospital at 1955 W Frye Rd in Chandler, serving the East Valley from Maricopa County. It is a not-for-profit Dignity Health hospital, part of CommonSpirit Health. Mercy Gilbert Medical Center is a separate Dignity Health hospital, and Dignity’s East Valley community benefit report describes the two hospitals individually.

The Arizona Department of Health Services includes Chandler Regional on its list of designated Level I trauma centers, and the hospital’s emergency room page describes it the same way. The emergency department provides adult and pediatric emergency medicine around the clock. Its stroke and neurology care is delivered by a team that includes neurosurgeons.

Beyond emergency care, the hospital offers heart health, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, along with general surgery, orthopedic surgery and robotic surgery. Its key services also include intensive care. Chandler Regional hosts graduate medical education residency programs on its campus.

The maternity department has labor, delivery and recovery suites, maternal and fetal medicine specialists, and care for high-risk pregnancies. According to the hospital’s own website, its neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, carries a Level II E designation.

Can You File a Lawsuit Against Chandler Regional Medical Center, the Doctor, or Both?

You may be able to file a lawsuit against Chandler Regional Medical Center, against the physician or other provider who treated you, or both. Which of them can be sued depends on who made the error in the care and how that person was connected to the hospital. In Arizona, a hospital is responsible for negligence by its own employees, such as nurses and technicians, while doing their jobs.

Physicians at Chandler Regional do not all share one relationship with the hospital. Dignity Health’s provider directory lists its employed providers and those in its joint-venture medical groups first, and it includes independent providers too. Because of that mix, each treating provider’s relationship has to be checked, and who employed that provider shapes who is named in the claim.

A contract that calls a physician independent does not answer the question by itself. Arizona courts look at how much control the hospital actually had over the physician’s work. Under apparent agency, a hospital can also be responsible for an independent physician when its own conduct led the patient to reasonably believe that physician was part of its staff. Sorting out those relationships is the first job of a lawyer to sue a hospital, since every responsible health care provider or facility has to be identified.

Arizona also requires the patient to state in writing, early in the case, whether expert testimony is needed to prove it. When it is, a sworn preliminary expert opinion affidavit under A.R.S. 12-2603 must be served with the initial disclosures, or the claim risks dismissal. Our Phoenix hospital malpractice lawyers cover hospital liability and the affidavit requirement in greater depth.

Does Arizona Limit What a Jury Can Award in a Lawsuit Against Chandler Regional?

No Arizona law may limit the damages a jury awards for injury or death in a lawsuit against Chandler Regional Medical Center. Article 2, Section 31 of the Arizona Constitution forbids any law capping what can be recovered for causing a person’s death or injury. The jury decides the amount on the evidence, though no particular award is guaranteed and the constitution does not protect punitive damages.

The Arizona Supreme Court has applied that protection in a medical malpractice case. In Smith v. Myers, the court struck down statutes that allowed future damages in a malpractice case to be paid over time instead of in one sum. It held that the scheme left injured patients with a significantly less valuable recovery, which the constitution does not permit.

A jury in an Arizona medical malpractice case may still hear about money the patient receives from other sources. Under A.R.S. 12-565, the defense can present evidence of the patient’s insurance and other outside benefits. The jury decides what weight that evidence deserves, and it does not automatically reduce the verdict. For a private provider such as Chandler Regional, no Arizona statute caps punitive damages.

When more than one party caused the harm, each generally answers for its own part. If the hospital and a physician are both found at fault, A.R.S. 12-2506 generally makes each pay only its own share of the damages. That is why every responsible provider is named. A patient found partly at fault has the recovery reduced by that share under A.R.S. 12-2505, but is not barred from recovering.

How We Work With Injured Chandler Regional Patients and Families

Hastings Law Firm represents Chandler Regional Medical Center patients and families in hospital malpractice claims in Chandler, Arizona. Our attorneys and medical professionals work through the complete medical records, and our board-certified patient advocates keep each family up to date.

Reaching out about an injury or a loss at Chandler Regional Medical Center connects you with a member of our intake team. A spouse, parent or adult child can make the call for a patient who is too ill to make it.

Describe the treatment, the providers you remember, and anything you were told afterward. Our team works to make sure you are heard, and what you share guides where our review looks first.

We then request the complete medical records on your behalf. Our attorneys and medical professionals work through the triage notes, operative reports, labor records and medication orders to establish the order of events and what was missed along the way. When our hospital negligence lawyers accept a case, it rests on those records and on independent physicians who can explain them.

Once we represent you, our attorneys handle every conversation with the hospital, its insurers and its defense counsel. Our board-certified patient advocates stay in contact with you, and when the case reaches a meaningful step, they tell you what it means in plain terms. Our hospital malpractice attorneys pursue a settlement that covers the full cost of the injury to your family, and when an offer falls short, our attorneys are trial ready.

If You or a Loved One Were Injured at Chandler Regional, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

Hastings Law Firm handles hospital malpractice claims in Chandler, Arizona, for patients and families harmed during treatment at Chandler Regional Medical Center. We perform a free case review to find out whether you have a valid claim and who may share responsibility for the harm. If our hospital negligence lawyers believe a difficult result was not caused by malpractice, we will explain why.

Our team is here for you. What you tell our Chandler medical malpractice lawyers is kept confidential, and there are no fees or costs unless we win. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.