Hospital Error Law Firm For Toronto And Across Ontario
Our Richmond Hill lawyers for hospital errors can help you in cases beyond simple doctor negligence. We also have experience with:
Hospital Errors
Hospitals are busy places, with a wide variety of people working and visiting every day. Hospitals deal with sick and fragile patients, as well as dangerous substances and equipment. They provide complicated services that require knowledge, skill, attention to detail and cooperation among staff to be carried out successfully.
There are many procedures in place to protect patient health and safety as people, information and materials move within a hospital. When these procedures are inadequate, inadequately enforced or ignored, patients suffer.
Nursing malpractice
Nurses are trusted to care for patients day to day. When they fail in their duties, patients may receive the wrong medication, doctors may receive the wrong information about their patients and vital changes in a patient’s health may go unnoticed.
Falls
Like any other public area, hospitals have a duty to maintain a safe environment for the general public. Considering the fact that people in hospitals are often fragile and may suffer from other problems such as dementia, the importance of keeping the physical environment safe is even greater. Proper care of patients when moving them from one place to another and of bedridden patients who may be unable to remain in bed on their own is also critical.
Equipment failure
Sometimes medical malpractice is due to failure of the equipment that staff rely upon to diagnose or treat injuries and illnesses. There may be compensation available for this, especially if the staff knew or should have known of equipment problems.
Emergency room errors
ERs are busy places where decisions must be made quickly and correctly. When ER staff members don’t follow proper procedures, mistakes such as triage failure can result in critical delays in treatment, incorrect treatment or patients being sent home without any treatment at all.
Here to Help
At Harte Law, we can help you or your clients determine who is responsible if you have been harmed during a hospital stay. Contact us at 289-695-2450 for a consultation. Our lawyers have helped patients throughout Ontario and across the country receive the compensation they need to heal and move ahead.