A hospital should not be but often is a dangerous place. We go to the hospital in our most vulnerable time; our time of greatest need. Trust and surrender are our only choices. When that trust is violated the consequences are often devastating. The medical community has a name for the unnecessary harm that hospital patients often suffer-never events. These are injuries that simply should never take place and only do when someone failed to follow the safety rules that apply to hospitals. Some of the most common "never events" include: surgery on the wrong part of the body; serious injury or death from medication error; stage III or IV pressure ulcers; death following surgery in a healthy patient; air embolism, assault while at a hospital or nursing home, injury from falls and many more. To suffer a significant injury or the death of a loved one as the direct result of negligence during a hospital stay is painfully tragic. If you or a loved one has been harmed by hospital negligence then contact a Board Certified Trial Lawyer who is knowledgeable about medical malpractice. Proving what went on behind closed hospital doors is a daunting challenge and should only be undertaken by a lawyer with experience in the field of medical malpractice. We bring you that experience.
All hospital negligence cases are handled on contingency. We do not get paid until you do.
At the Law Office of Tom Kemmy, we understand how painful it can be to enter a hospital only to stand helplessly by as staff members fail to properly fulfill their duties or even ignore your requests for help. The laws that apply to hospitals and physicians are different than the laws that apply to any others who cause harm-nearly every law concerning a health care provider is aimed at freeing them from their negligent conduct so that they can continue to break the rules and harm others without consequences. Tom Kemmy has spent more than 25 years successfully representing patients and families injured from hospital negligence, and we are determined to fight for the highest possible compensation due under the law. Early in Tom's career he was an insurance defense counsel and was hired to defend doctors, nurses and hospitals. Tom's knowledge of the defense side of litigation proves beneficial when representing injured patients today.
Falling Through The Cracks
It is not unusual for a patient to enter a hospital and receive care from doctors he or she has never met before. Sometimes during the transition between doctors, specialists, nurses and departments, there is a breakdown in communication and the patient falls through the cracks.
Time and again we have held hospitals accountable when a family member of our client entered the hospital and then was ignored, forgotten and died unnecessarily. For example, we assisted a family in holding a San Antonio hospital and physician accountable when they forgot about an 82 year old grandmother who died waiting for a simple surgical procedure because no one called the surgeon. We successfully helped the wife and children of a loving husband and father hold a Fort Worth hospital accountable when they failed to monitor the patient following an elective knee surgery and he died unnecessarily from respiratory arrest.
When other lawyers turned down her case, a single mother of two year old baby Dennis came to our office for help. Dennis went into an Eagle Pass hospital a perfectly healthy child and came out a child who would never walk, speak, see, smile or feed himself. Why? The nurses and doctor caring for Dennis failed to follow the simple patient safety rule that the medical team must communicate with each other. Had doctor and nurse simple spoke to each other about baby Dennis' symptoms he would be gliding down a slide and climbing a tree today. If Dennis was going to have any dignity in his life, he would need a monetary recovery large enough to provide for a home remodeled for his quadriplegic condition, a customized vehicle, and millions of dollars in a special needs trust to pay for his future medical care, hospitalizations, round-the-clock support and therapy. Today, Dennis has this help.
Nursing Negligence
One of the primary responsibilities of hospital nursing staff is to monitor patients for early detection of complications. If a patient is not properly monitored the health care providers lose the opportunity to intervene in time to prevent harm. When a patient is simply forgotten or ignored the problem is usually because the hospital is poorly managed and the medical personnel are short staffed. Ultimately, the patient's injury or death is a direct result of poor management practices and the business decision to cut corner's at the risk of danger to the hospital patients.
Experienced Corpus Christi Nursing Negligence Attorney
From our office in San Antonio, we represent clients throughout south Texas. Contact the Law Office of Tom Kemmy at 210-460-1258 to arrange a free consultation with an experienced San Antonio hospital negligence attorney. Hablamos español.
