Health Care Case Study

The plaintiff in Ard v. East Jefferson General Hospital, stated on 20 May, she had rang the nurses station to inform the nursing staff that her husband was experiencing symptoms of nausea, pain, and shortness of breathe. After ringing the call button for several times her spouse received his medication. Mrs. Ard noticed that her husband continued to have difficulty breathing and ringing from side to side, the patient spouse rang the nursing station for approximately an hour and twenty-five minutes until the defendant (Ms. Florscheim) enter the room and initiated a code blue, which Mr. Ard didn’t recover. The expert witness testified that the defendant failed to provide the standard of care concerning the decease and should have read the physician’s progress notes stating patient is high risk upon assessment and observation. The defendant testified she checked on the patient but no documentation was noted. The defendant expert witness disagrees with breech of duty, which upon cross-examination the expert witness agrees with the breech of duty. The district judge, upon judgment, the defendant failed to provide the standard of care (Pozgar, 2012, p. 215-216) and award the plaintiff for damages from $50,000 to $150,000 (Pozgar, 2012, p. 242).

During the examination, the Plaintiff told him her pain was a three out of ten, with a one being the lowest and ten being the highest. The results of his neurological examination and examination on the Plaintiff’s range of motion was normal. With regard to the Plaintiff’s pre-existing history, the only records he reviewed were those from Dr. Fichtel. He did not review the Plaintiff’s medical records from 2000. He testified that based on his review of an MRI taken prior to the Plaintiff’s 2007 surgery and a CT scan taken one year after the surgery, he only saw a “very mild” progression of her cervical condition at C3-4, C4-5 and

The claimant had 9 physical therapy visits for cervicalgia and low back pain from 01/12/2017 t0 02/01/2017.

Redding stated that she saw the claimant report to work pain-free without wearing any orthopedic wrist-guards or braces on her right wrist. That same afternoon, an employee informed her that the claimant was inside one of the exam rooms with Mr. Luis Taylor, a Physical Therapist. She was informed the claimant was being treated for a right wrist injury that may have occurred outside of work, as Mr. Taylor conducting a courtesy exam for the claimant since she was an employee. Ms. Redding could not recall whom the employee has who informed her about Mr. Taylor NIL the

In referring to the allegations of the particular claim and to the CT claim of injuries which Mr. Arzuz has alleged within his post-termination claim, she argued that Mr. Arzuz had never reported or complained about the underlying medical conditions which he is complaining about to the body-parts which were affected by his claim. For the short amount of time he has been employed with her company, she said Mr. Arzuz’s sedentary position which requires very little physical activities to perform the job is not fast-paced or repetitive since the physical actions with the use of hands and fingers to assemble light pieces of motherboards require very little repetitious movements. After going through Mr. Arzuz’s personnel file, she found he never made a

Attend the next appointment with Dr. Taha on 10/24/17 to address work status, bone healing, replacement services, attendant care. Obtain projections for recovery.

Tammy Fluanker, medical records personnel, offered her a new physician’s comp form to take back to the physician to reopen a claim. Ms. Waeld refused to consider

On Thursday, 10/22/2015 the claimant stated he reported for work pain-free and was not suffering from any pain or discomfort from four other work related injuries that he reported as claims and received judgments. The claimant was unable to account for the real dates of his past work-related injuries that occurred between 2010 and 1/2013. The claimants past industrial-related injuries ranged from a left wrist injury, head injury and two separate right wrist injuries which he says did not include any injury to any other body parts.

Kathy has a weight bearing restriction in place, is currently utilizing a wheelchair for mobility, and is a hands on one person assist with transfers. Judy shares that the previous day Kathy and the physical therapist worked with Joe and herself on transfers into and from the car so they can take her to her scheduled appointment with the orthopedic doctor on Friday. Judy shares that it is expected that the doctor will modify the weight restriction at the appointment. Judy and SSA spoke about a time frame for discharge. Judy shares there is no time frame established. Per Judy, Kathy’s private insurance only has twenty days of physical therapy remaining in the plan and does not know what happens at the end of the twenty days if Kathy needs additional therapy. She has plans to contact Humana later this day to discuss Kathy’s insurance benefits. We discussed that Kathy believes she has an UTI and that a sample of her urine was taken before lunch for testing. We discussed that Kathy is satisfied with the Care Springs facility, the food served, and nurses assigned to work with her. During the visit, Kathy asked about Wildey staff and of all who was aware of her injury. We discussed her

This proceeding before a Medical Review Panel, pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. §§ 40:1299.41, et seq., is brought by Jimmy Martinez against multiple health care providers, including Dr. Mark Kappelman, a qualified health care provider entitled to have the claim filed against him reviewed by this Panel. The claims made against Dr. Kappelman are mere allegations without support and proof. In a medical malpractice case the burden of proof is on the claimant to establish that Dr. Mark Kappelman’s actions in this matter fell below the standard of care required of similar health care providers. The claimant also bears the burden of proving whether any such alleged act or acts of negligence caused any injuries. It is the duty of the

On 5/13/2015 I met with Dr. Navato at Centerpoint Medical Center. Dr. Navato was familiar with the complaint as she had submitted a narrative response to the BHA in February of 2015. The allegation was that Dr. Navato did not honor a (Do Not Resuscitate) order.

On 8/25/2015 S/O EMT Perez was dispatched to PV-509 regarding severe leg pain. S/O EMT Perez knocked and announced his presence at the door and was verbally invited in by the resident a Mrs. Margaret Folkins. Mrs. Folkins stated that she had been in severe leg pain the entire day and she was having difficulty resting. Mrs. Folkins also stated that she was at the hospital for it the day prior because of it but the cause of the pain couldn’t be diagnosed. S/O EMT Perez asked Mrs. Folkins if she had fallen recently and if that was the reason for her visit to the hospital prior. Mrs. Folkins stated that she fall’s all the time but that wasn’t the reason for her visit to the hospital yesterday. The reason for Mrs. Folkins visit to the hospital yesterday

On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at approximately 10:00am I obtained a statement from the complainant patient Walter Rysiejko located in the Greenberg Pavilion 2-North room 208.

During the time of the claimant met with Jessica McClellan and Supervisor Jovany Villanueva, he alleged that the claimant never reported or complained about her alleged injuries that she had in her claim. He states prior to the claimant being called into the office on 2-21-15, he had not seen or heard the claimant complain of being injured at work prior to when being called into the office. The claimant did not attempt to either contact him or anyone else he is aware of that knew of the claimants injuries.

Ms. Martin provided her r/s when she observed the claimant having a seizure next to her hospital bed. No account of a head injury was mentioned or found when claimant, Ms. Alcala, collapsed to the ground. Mr. Connelius confirmed he just arrived for work when he an employee informed him about Ms. Alcala's seizure. After assessing her medical condition, he found her to be unresponsive, at which time she was transported to a local hospital and has not returned to work.