Texas Health Hospital Frisco Malpractice Lawyer

Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Texas Health Hospital Frisco Patients and Families

The Types of Texas Health Frisco Lawsuits Our Hospital Malpractice Attorneys Handle

Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers represent patients and families in Texas Health Hospital Frisco lawsuits in Frisco, Texas, arising from emergency care, surgery, and childbirth. Our attorneys begin each case by collecting the records of every unit that treated the patient. We then work with physicians in the matching specialty to show where care fell short and what the patient and family lost.

The cases we see most often at a hospital like Texas Health Hospital Frisco include:

• Emergency Room care delays. A heart attack, stroke, infection, or internal bleeding can go unrecognized or untreated for too long, a test result can go without follow-up, or a patient can be sent home too soon. Each hour of delay can narrow the treatment that still works, and the result may be lasting disability or the loss of a loved one. Our Dallas misdiagnosis attorneys set the triage notes, test orders, results, and discharge instructions against the clock.
• Surgical errors, including robot-assisted and weight-loss surgery. In a robot-assisted general, colorectal, gynecologic, thoracic, or urologic procedure, or in weight-loss surgery, an injury to a nearby organ or vessel can go uncaught, the wrong site can be operated on, or an object can be left behind. A complication, bleeding, or infection missed afterward may require further surgery, more days in the hospital, and additional recovery time. Our Dallas surgical error lawyers read the operative report beside the anesthesia record and the post-operative nursing notes.
• Labor, delivery, and newborn care errors. Signs of fetal distress can be missed, a cesarean can be delayed, a mother’s bleeding or blood pressure can go untreated, or a newborn’s breathing, blood sugar, or signs of infection can go unwatched in the NICU. Harm around birth can affect a child’s health and development and change a family’s daily life for years. Our Dallas birth injury attorneys compare the fetal monitoring tracings with the delivery record, the nursing notes, and the NICU charting.

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

About Texas Health Hospital Frisco on Dallas Parkway

Texas Health Hospital Frisco is a hospital at 12400 Dallas Parkway in Frisco, Texas, and part of Texas Health. Its services include 24-hour Emergency Services, an Intensive Care Unit, robot-assisted and weight-loss surgery, and cardiology and heart care. Maternity care there includes labor-delivery-recovery (LDR) suites and a Level II neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

According to the hospital’s location page, its emergency physicians provide immediate evaluation, care and stabilization for patients with illnesses and injuries. The ICU is staffed by critical-care nurses, hospitalists, and a multidisciplinary team. The hospital also lists cardiopulmonary care and evaluation, women’s health, and physical therapy among its services.

A patient’s care at Texas Health Frisco can pass between several teams. Someone seen in the Emergency Room may be moved to the ICU or an operating room. A mother and newborn may go from an LDR suite to the NICU. Each of those teams keeps its own record, and our Frisco medical malpractice lawyers request every one so no step of the care goes unread.

We also represent people treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, a nearby hospital in the Texas Health Resources system. Our firm also represents patients and families from Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Centennial, a separate hospital in Frisco.

Can You File a Lawsuit Against Texas Health Hospital Frisco, the Doctor, or Both?

Texas Health Hospital Frisco, a physician who treated a patient there, or both can be named in a malpractice lawsuit, depending on who provided the negligent care. Under the Texas Supreme Court’s decision in Baptist Memorial Hospital System v. Sampson, a hospital can answer for an employee’s negligence within the scope of employment. A physician answers personally for his or her own care.

The hospital’s location page states, “The Emergency Room is staffed by independent full-time physicians and nurses.” That statement describes the Emergency Room only. It does not change the rule that the hospital remains responsible for the negligence of the people it employs.

A provider who is not a hospital employee can still be tied to the hospital through ostensible agency. That term means the hospital made it appear the provider worked for it. The patient must prove a reasonable belief that the provider was the hospital’s agent, conduct by the hospital that created or knowingly allowed that belief, and justifiable reliance on it. A statement like the one about Emergency Room staffing bears on those questions.

Outside the Emergency Room, the records and staffing arrangements show who employed each nurse, surgeon, and specialist. Sorting that out is the first task for a lawyer to sue a hospital, because it decides who is named in a Texas Health Frisco lawsuit. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers work through those questions for patients across the metro.

Not every complication means a provider was careless, because treatment carries real risk even when it is done well. Where an injury was preventable, the providers whose care caused it should be held accountable.

Does the Texas Emergency Care Standard Follow a Patient From the ER Into Surgery at Texas Health Frisco?

The Texas emergency care standard can follow a patient from the ER into surgery at Texas Health Frisco, but only under limited conditions. Section 74.153 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code requires proof of willful and wanton negligence for emergency care in a surgical suite right after emergency department treatment. Whether an operation qualifies depends on its timing and the patient’s condition.

Willful and wanton negligence is a higher bar than the ordinary negligence standard that governs most hospital care. The patient must prove it by a preponderance of the evidence, which means more likely than not. That burden applies only to care that meets the legal meaning of an emergency.

Section 74.001(a)(7) defines emergency medical care as care after the sudden onset of a condition with acute symptoms, such as severe pain. The symptoms must be serious enough that going without immediate attention could place the patient’s health in serious jeopardy or seriously impair a bodily function or organ. The definition excludes care given once the patient is stable enough to be treated as a nonemergency patient.

Section 74.153(b) adds limits of its own. The higher standard does not cover care unrelated to the emergency. It also gives no protection to a provider whose own negligence caused a stable patient to need emergency care.

For a patient at Texas Health Frisco, a scheduled operation is judged by the ordinary standard. So is surgery days after an Emergency Room visit, once the patient had been stabilized and was being treated as a nonemergency patient. Only an operation that follows emergency evaluation immediately, while the emergency is still under way, can fall under the higher standard.

The records show where that line falls. The Emergency Room record, the operative note, and the anesthesia record show when the patient arrived, when the patient was stabilized, and when the operation began. Our Texas surgical error lawyers read those times side by side to show which standard governs each stage of the care.

How We Work With Injured Texas Health Frisco Patients and Their Families

Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers represent patients and families in Frisco, Texas, in claims arising from care at Texas Health Hospital Frisco. Our attorneys start with what the family saw, then study the chart alongside our medical professionals to learn what happened at each stage of care.

Your first call goes to a member of our intake team, and a spouse, parent, or adult child may make the call when the patient cannot. Share what happened, when, and in which part of the hospital, along with any names you remember. We work to make sure you are heard, and what you describe guides which records we gather first.

Our team then gathers the full medical chart for you. Our attorneys and medical professionals read the Emergency Room notes, operative and anesthesia records, ICU charting, and labor and delivery records. From them we establish what was done, what was missed, and when. When our hospital negligence lawyers accept a case, we build it on that chart and on qualified experts who can explain it.

From then on, we handle every conversation with the hospital, its insurer, and its lawyers. Our board-certified patient advocates stay in contact with you and put each new development into plain terms as it happens. Our hospital malpractice attorneys pursue a settlement that accounts for every loss the injury caused. If the other side’s offer is too low, we are prepared to take your case to a jury.

If You or a Loved One Were Injured at Texas Health Frisco, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers review claims for patients and families in Frisco, Texas, after care at Texas Health Hospital Frisco led to serious injury or loss. We perform a free case review to find out whether you have a valid claim, who it may be brought against, and what the records support.

Our team is here for you. Anything you share with us is kept confidential, and there is no fee unless we win. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.