Woman’s Hospital of Texas Malpractice Lawyer

Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Woman’s Hospital of Texas Patients and Families

The Types of Woman’s Hospital of Texas Lawsuits Our Hospital Malpractice Attorneys Handle

Hastings Law Firm handles Woman’s Hospital of Texas malpractice lawsuits for mothers, newborns and families in Houston, Texas. A claim can run against the hospital, against the physicians and groups who practice there, or against its staff. Our attorneys handle claims over birth injuries and monitoring failures, cesarean delivery injuries, and surgical and recovery errors.

The cases we see most often at women’s and newborn hospitals like Woman’s Hospital of Texas include:

• Birth injuries and monitoring failures. A sign of fetal distress can be missed, misread, or answered too slowly, and a newborn deprived of oxygen for long enough can be left with a permanent brain injury. For a family that can mean therapy, equipment, and care for the rest of a child’s life. Our Houston birth injury attorneys build a minute-by-minute timeline from the monitoring record, the orders, and the notes of everyone who was at the bedside.
• Cesarean delivery injuries. A cesarean called too late, or carried out with a technical error, can harm the newborn, the mother, or both. What follows can be another operation, a longer hospital stay, and an injury that never fully resolves. Our Houston C-section injury lawyers measure the timing of the decision against the operative report and the anesthesia record.
• Surgical and recovery errors. A technical mistake during an operation, an injury that is not recognized before the patient leaves the operating room, or a complication that goes unanswered afterward can cause lasting damage. Hemorrhage and infection are treatable when a team catches them early, and a slow response can cost a mother her health or her life. Our Houston surgical malpractice lawyers read the operative report against the recovery notes, the vital signs, and the orders that followed.

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

About Woman’s Hospital of Texas

The Woman’s Hospital of Texas is a private Houston hospital whose practice is the care of women and newborns. It belongs to the HCA Houston Healthcare system, whose parent company, HCA Healthcare, is publicly traded and for profit. It is not a government facility and not a nonprofit, which decides which set of Texas rules a claim against it follows.

Its programs are concentrated on one Houston campus, which holds more than 400 licensed beds.

The hospital’s work is labor and delivery, high-risk pregnancy, gynecology and breast health, with obstetrician-gynecologists, neonatologists and anesthesiologists on site around the clock. Maternal-fetal medicine specialists manage complicated pregnancies, and the hospital provides both routine and emergency maternal care.

Newborns who need the most advanced care are treated in a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, the highest level the state designates. The state also lists the hospital as a Level IV trauma facility.

Can You File a Lawsuit Against Woman’s Hospital of Texas, the Doctor, or Both?

You may be able to file a lawsuit against Woman’s Hospital of Texas, against an individual provider, or against both, depending on who was responsible for the harm. A hospital answers for the negligence of the people it employs, which usually includes the nurses and technicians who provide care at the bedside. It answers separately for its own institutional decisions.

Who employed the physician, and what the hospital decided for itself, shape the rest of the answer.

Many of the physicians who practice at a private hospital, obstetricians and anesthesiologists among them, work through their own groups rather than as employees of the hospital. Being a contractor does not place a physician beyond a claim, and it does not move the hospital’s own responsibilities onto them either. What it changes is who the defendants are and how the claim is put together. A lawyer to sue a hospital begins by identifying every health care provider or facility that had a hand in the care.

The institution’s own decisions are the second half of the answer. How a unit is staffed, what its protocols require, and how quickly a team can be assembled when something goes wrong are the hospital’s decisions rather than any one provider’s. A claim built on them is brought against the institution itself.

Texas also requires a written report from a qualified medical expert early in a malpractice claim, under Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. Our Houston hospital malpractice lawyers explain that requirement along with vicarious liability, corporate negligence, and the contractor defense. Our Houston medical malpractice lawyers also represent patients injured at other Houston hospitals, including Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center.

Does the Texas Emergency Care Standard Apply to Labor and Delivery at Woman’s Hospital of Texas?

The Texas emergency care standard reaches labor and delivery at Woman’s Hospital of Texas only where the care being questioned was emergency medical care given in an obstetrical unit. Texas names three settings for that rule, a hospital emergency department, an obstetrical unit, and a surgical suite used immediately after an emergency room evaluation. An obstetrical unit is on that list.

Where the standard applies, an injured patient has to prove willful and wanton negligence, a higher bar than the ordinary standard that governs the rest of a hospital stay. How strongly it has to be proven does not change. The measure stays a preponderance of the evidence, which means more likely than not.

The law’s own exceptions leave a great deal outside that higher bar. It does not cover care given after a patient is stabilized and treated as a nonemergency patient, and it does not cover treatment unrelated to a medical emergency. It also does not shelter a provider whose own negligence caused a stable patient to need emergency care. A planned labor that is being monitored is not an emergency simply because it takes place in an obstetrical unit.

Which standard governs a claim is answered by the record, not by where the care happened. The fetal monitoring record and the timing of each decision show when a labor became an emergency and which care falls on either side of that line. The higher bar covers a narrow window, and the ordinary standard governs everything outside it. Our Texas emergency room malpractice lawyers explain the standard and how these claims are proven.

How We Work With Injured Woman’s Hospital of Texas Patients

Hastings Law Firm represents Woman’s Hospital of Texas patients and families in hospital malpractice claims in Houston, Texas. Our attorneys and medical professionals review the complete chart of the care, and our board-certified patient advocates keep each family informed as the claim moves forward.

Your first call about harm at Woman’s Hospital of Texas goes to a member of our intake team. A parent can make that call for a child, and a family member can make it for a patient who is not able to.

Tell us what happened, who was involved, and when, as well as you know it. Our team works to make sure you are heard, and your account is where our review begins.

That review is built on the complete medical records, and our team requests them so a family does not have to. Our attorneys and medical professionals read the prenatal chart, the monitoring record, the delivery and operative notes, the newborn’s chart, and the medication orders against one another. Care that fell short usually shows itself in the timing. If our hospital negligence lawyers take your case, it is built on what those records hold and on the physicians who can explain them.

From that point we deal with the hospital, its insurer, and its legal team, so you never have to face them yourself. Our board-certified patient advocates stay in contact with you and explain each development in plain language when there is one. Our hospital malpractice attorneys press for a settlement that accounts for what the injury has cost your family. When an offer falls short, we are prepared to take the case to a jury.

If You or a Loved One Were Injured at Woman’s Hospital of Texas, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

Hastings Law Firm handles hospital malpractice claims in Houston, Texas, for mothers, babies and families left worse off by care at Woman’s Hospital of Texas. Our hospital negligence lawyers will look at what happened and tell you who may be responsible for it. When we believe a poor outcome was not malpractice, you will hear that from us just as plainly.

Our team is here for you. We perform a free case review to find out whether you have a valid claim, and everything you tell us stays confidential. You pay no fees or costs unless we win. Let us help you find the answers you deserve.