Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Malpractice Lawyer

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

The Types of Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas Lawsuits Our Hospital Malpractice Attorneys Handle

Hastings Law Firm represents patients in Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas lawsuits in Dallas, Texas, over delayed stroke and heart care, labor and delivery injuries, and surgical errors. Our hospital malpractice lawyers base each case on the full medical record and on physicians from the relevant specialty. We rely on both to show when the standard of care was breached and what that breach took from the patient.

The cases we see most often at a stroke center and Level I trauma center like Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas include:

• Delayed diagnosis and treatment of a stroke or heart emergency. The signs of a stroke or a heart emergency can be missed on arrival, or the imaging and treatment they call for can come too late. Brain and heart tissue lost to that delay may not recover, leaving lasting disability or ending in the loss of a loved one. Our Dallas medical misdiagnosis lawyers match the time symptoms were first charted against each scan, lab result, and treatment order.
• Labor and delivery errors that injure a mother or baby. Warning signs on the fetal heart monitor can go unanswered, a needed delivery can be delayed, or the mother’s own complication can go untreated. An injury at birth can mean years of therapy and specialized care for a child, and serious harm to the mother’s health. Our Dallas birth injury attorneys read the fetal monitoring strips alongside the labor and nursing notes to establish when intervention was needed.
• Surgical errors, including neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery. A mistake can happen during a neurosurgical or orthopedic operation, or a complication in the days after surgery can go unrecognized. The patient may face another operation, additional recovery time, and more days in the hospital. Our Dallas surgical error lawyers compare the operative report with the anesthesia, nursing, and post-operative records to find where the care broke down.

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

About Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on Walnut Hill Lane

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is a large nonprofit hospital at 8200 Walnut Hill Lane in Dallas, Texas. It is part of Texas Health Resources, a faith-based, nonprofit health system that calls the campus Texas Health Dallas. Its services include emergency and trauma care, a Comprehensive Stroke Center, heart and vascular care, neurosciences, surgery, and labor and delivery.

Its Emergency Department provides what the hospital describes as advanced emergency care, and the campus is designated a Level I Trauma Center. The Texas Department of State Health Services roster of trauma facilities places it at Level I as well. Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas is also a Comprehensive Stroke Center.

Heart care runs through the Heart & Vascular program and the Advanced Cardiac Therapies Center. The hospital also lists neurosciences and neurosurgery, surgery, orthopedics, and digestive health services.

Childbirth takes place in the Labor & Delivery unit of the Margot Perot Center, which also has mother and baby rooms. The state’s neonatal designation list records the hospital as a Level III neonatal facility.

One patient’s treatment can involve the Emergency Department, an operating room, and the Labor & Delivery unit or a heart program. Each of those units keeps separate records. Our firm handles claims involving other Dallas hospitals as well, such as Baylor University Medical Center and Medical City Dallas Hospital.

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

You can sue Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, a physician, or both when the records show each one’s care fell below the accepted standard and caused harm. Under Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, a report from a qualified medical expert is due within 120 days of each defendant’s answer.

Who answers for the harm depends on who gave the care and who employed them. A hospital can be responsible for negligent care by its own employees, including its nurses and technicians. It can also be responsible for institutional choices of its own, such as staffing levels and safety systems. A physician is separately accountable for their own decisions in treating the patient.

Together, the chart and each provider’s employer determine whom a claim can name. A lawyer to sue a hospital starts with those two questions before anything is filed. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers describe the ways a hospital, its staff, and its physicians can each be held responsible.

Medicine carries risk, and a poor result does not by itself mean anyone was negligent. When careless treatment caused a preventable injury, the people and institutions behind that care should be held accountable.

Who Can Bring a Wrongful Death Claim After a Loss at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas?

The surviving spouse, children, and parents of a patient can bring a wrongful death claim after a loss at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 71.004 reserves the claim for their exclusive benefit, and any one of them may bring it for all of them. The claim exists when a wrongful act, neglect, carelessness, or unskillfulness caused the death.

Losing someone after hospital care leaves a family grieving while still trying to understand what happened. At a Level I trauma center and stroke center, care can move quickly from one unit to the next. A family can be left to piece the events together from the records, and those records are where a wrongful death claim takes shape.

If none of the spouse, children, or parents files within three calendar months of the death, the executor or administrator of the patient’s estate must bring the claim. That duty falls away when all of them ask the executor or administrator not to file.

The patient’s own injury claim does not end with the death. Under Section 71.021, it survives to the patient’s heirs, legal representatives, and estate, and it is a separate claim from the family’s. In the wrongful death claim, Section 71.010 has the jury divide the damages among the family members in shares.

A death claim based on medical care is a health care liability claim under Section 74.001(a)(13) of Chapter 74. The same pre-suit notice, expert report, and two-year deadline apply as in an injury claim. Our Texas medical malpractice wrongful death guide explains how these claims are brought.

How We Work With Injured Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas Patients and Their Families

For injured Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas patients and families in Dallas, Texas, Hastings Law Firm handles each claim from the first conversation to settlement or verdict. Our Dallas medical malpractice lawyers collect the chart, work with medical experts, and negotiate with the hospital’s insurer on the family’s behalf.

A member of our intake team takes your first call. If the patient cannot phone us, a spouse, parent, or grown child is welcome to call instead. Tell us what happened, when it happened, and who treated you or your family member, as well as you can recall. We work to make sure you are heard, because what you tell us about the care is where our review starts.

Our firm requests the full medical chart for you. The attorneys and medical professionals on our team go through the emergency, stroke, labor and delivery, and operative records to pin down each decision, each omission, and its timing. Once our hospital negligence lawyers take on a claim, it is built on that chart and on medical experts qualified to explain it.

After you hire us, we take over every exchange with the hospital, the insurer, and the defense lawyers, so you are not left to face them. Our board-certified patient advocates keep you informed as the case develops and answer your questions in plain language. Our hospital malpractice lawyers pursue a settlement that reflects every loss the injury has caused your family, and if no offer does, our attorneys take the case to trial.

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

After an injury or a loss at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Hastings Law Firm reviews hospital negligence claims for patients and families in Dallas, Texas. Our lawyers look into what happened and who may be responsible. When our review shows a poor outcome was not the result of negligence, we tell you that plainly and explain why.

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