Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton Malpractice Lawyer

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

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

Hastings Law Firm represents patients and families in Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton lawsuits in Denton, Texas, over pregnancy and newborn care, stroke and emergency diagnosis, and surgery. Our hospital malpractice lawyers begin each case with the full chart from every unit that treated the patient. We then consult physicians in the same specialty to pinpoint where treatment departed from the accepted standard and what the departure cost.

The cases we see most often at a hospital with Level III neonatal intensive care and a primary stroke center like Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton include:

• Labor, delivery, and newborn injuries. The warning signs of a high-risk pregnancy or a baby’s distress during labor can go unanswered for too long, and care for a premature or sick newborn in neonatal intensive care can fall short. The harm can stay with a child for life and change how a whole family lives, with years of therapy and specialized care. Our Dallas birth injury attorneys compare the monitoring strips from labor with the delivery record and the newborn’s NICU chart to show when the care should have changed.
• Stroke and emergency diagnosis delays. A stroke or another emergency can go unrecognized in the emergency room, or treatment can start after the window in which it would have helped most. The delay can mean lasting disability, lost speech or movement, or the loss of a loved one. The triage record, the brain imaging, and each order are what our Dallas medical misdiagnosis lawyers set against the clock to measure how long the diagnosis took.
• Surgical errors. A mistake can happen during a robotic, orthopedic, or minimally invasive gastrointestinal operation, or a complication in recovery can be missed until it is harder to correct. The patient can be left needing a second operation and a longer admission, with additional recovery time to follow. To find where it went wrong, our Dallas surgical error lawyers follow the procedure through the operative report, the anesthesia record, 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 Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton on North I-35

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton, at 3000 North I-35 in Denton, Texas, is a nonprofit hospital in the Texas Health Resources system. Known publicly as Texas Health Denton, the hospital serves Denton County. Its care ranges from the emergency room and labor and delivery to newborn intensive care, stroke care, heart care, and surgery.

On its Denton campus page, Texas Health says the hospital is certified by The Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center. The same page lists heart and vascular care, orthopedics, robotic surgery, and minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery.

Mothers deliver in the hospital’s labor and delivery unit, and high-risk pregnancy care comes from board-certified maternal-fetal specialists on the medical staff. Newborns who need intensive care go to the hospital’s Level III neonatal intensive care unit. The state’s neonatal designation list places Texas Health Denton at Level III as well.

The Texas Department of State Health Services also lists the hospital at Level III (Advanced) on its roster of trauma facilities.

A mother and baby can move through several units of Texas Health Denton in one course of care, and each unit keeps its own record:

• high-risk pregnancy visits, with the specialists’ notes and test results
• labor and delivery, with the fetal monitoring strips and nursing notes
• neonatal intensive care, with the newborn’s daily charting
• discharge, with the care instructions and follow-up referrals

Knowing which units were involved tells a family which records to request. Our firm also handles claims involving two other hospitals in the Texas Health Resources system, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano in Plano and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in Dallas.

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

Patients harmed at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton may be able to sue the hospital, a treating doctor, or both, based on whose care caused the harm. Employment matters too, because it decides which providers the hospital answers for. Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code also requires the patient to serve an expert report within 120 days after each defendant files its original answer.

The hospital can be held liable when a nurse or other employee was negligent and caused harm, and when its own staffing or safety practices fell short. Each physician is liable for the care that physician personally provided. Where both contributed, a lawsuit against Texas Health Denton can name the hospital and the physician together.

Texas Health’s system disclaimer states that doctors on its medical staffs practice independently and are not employees or agents of its hospitals. A claim about a physician’s treatment there usually names the physician for that reason. The records show which employer each provider worked for, and a lawyer to sue a hospital works that out before anyone is named.

Medical care carries real risk, and a poor outcome does not by itself mean negligence. Preventable harm is different, and those responsible for it should be held accountable. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers can walk a family through how responsibility is divided in a claim like this one.

How Are a Child’s Future Care Costs Paid After a Birth Injury at Texas Health Denton Under Texas Law?

A child’s future care costs after a birth injury at Texas Health Denton can be paid in installments rather than a lump sum. Section 74.503 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code requires those payments for future medical, health care, and custodial care when either side asks. The rule covers health care liability claims where the court finds future damages have a present value of $100,000 or more.

Either the family or the defendant can make the request. Other future damages, such as lost earnings, may be paid the same way, but only if the court chooses to order it.

A judgment for periodic payments names who receives them, the amount of each, and the interval between them. A defendant that is not adequately insured must prove it can pay the full award. Payments other than those for lost future earnings stop when the person receiving them dies, which matters when an award is meant to fund a child’s care for years.

The size of a future-care award rests on medical evidence of the care a child will need. A newborn who leaves Level III neonatal intensive care may need therapy and nursing support for years, and the records of that care become the evidence. Families can help by keeping each record as it arrives:

• the NICU discharge summary and care instructions
• referrals to therapists and specialists
• notes and reports from every follow-up visit
• bills and receipts for equipment, therapy, and home nursing

Our attorneys and medical professionals use those records, with physicians and care planners, to show a court what the child’s care will require. Our Texas birth injury lawyers represent families in these claims across the state.

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

Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers handle claims for patients and families in Denton, Texas, over care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton. We handle each claim from the first call through settlement or trial. Our Denton medical malpractice lawyers gather the records, work with the medical experts, and build each claim.

A member of our intake team answers your first call, and a close relative is welcome to call on behalf of a patient who cannot. Tell us what you remember about the care, when it happened, and who was involved. Our team works to make sure you are heard, since what you describe shapes where we look first.

We then request the complete medical records for you. Our attorneys work alongside our medical professionals to study the emergency room notes, labor and delivery charting, neonatal records, and operative reports. That study shows what happened at each step and what went unnoticed. When our hospital negligence lawyers take on your case, the claim rests on what those records show and on physicians able to explain it to a jury.

From the day you hire us, we handle every conversation with the hospital, its insurer, and its lawyers. As the case moves forward, our board-certified patient advocates stay in touch and explain every new development in plain language. Our hospital malpractice attorneys pursue a settlement that matches what the injury has taken from your family, and if no offer does, we are prepared to take your case to a jury.

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

Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers offer patients and families in Denton, Texas, a free case review of care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton. We perform that review to find out whether you have a valid claim, and against whom. It covers what happened and whether the care met the accepted medical standard.

Our team is here for you. Whatever you share stays confidential, and you owe no fees or costs unless we win. Our Dallas medical malpractice lawyers work with families from across the area as well. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.