When you’re seriously sick or injured in Tampa, your first thought is to find the closest hospital for care. For many Tampa residents and visitors, St. Joseph’s Hospital may be their first choice. Unfortunately, not even a highly rated hospital is immune from negligent doctors, nurses, medical care providers, and management. If you are a victim of medical malpractice from someone at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa and the surrounding areas, you have options for legal recourse.
Freidin Brown, P.A. has served Florida injury victims for over 45 years, fighting back against provider and hospital negligence to make sure victims get what they are owed for the harms they suffered. If you suspect that negligence led to your harm after visiting St. Joseph’s Hospital, do not hesitate to call our firm. We want to hear about your case and get started as soon as we can.
We Handle All Forms of Malpractice at St. Joseph’s Hospital
Medical malpractice covers many behaviors and actions by doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, other medical providers, and employees. Here is a list of potential cases we take:
- Birth injury and OB-GYN malpractice: This covers injuries that mothers and children may suffer during pregnancy, during birth, or after birth.
- Wrong medications: Doctors, nurses, and pharmacy workers could be liable if they prescribed or administered the wrong prescription or medication.
- Emergency room malpractice: ERs provide critical care to injured or sick patients, and malpractice can happen at any step of the process. Emergency care is often the difference between life and death for many patients, and hospitals should be held responsible for negligence. Whether it was a failure to admit you or a loved one, or if they improperly or wrongly discharged you or a family member from the ER, you can pursue legal action.
- Misdiagnosis: This form of malpractice includes delayed diagnosis or a failure to diagnose. Diagnosing a health issue can help patients stay ahead of serious issues and start a care plan to manage their health or prevent worsening issues. Delayed or improper diagnoses can leave you with severe health problems that could have been prevented.
- Cancer malpractice and radiology errors: Cancer is still a serious concern despite the many advances medicine has made. When doctors, nurses, surgeons, radiologists, and others misinterpret results, fail to order testing, or are otherwise negligent, it can have very serious consequences for you or a loved one.
- Cardiology malpractice: Heart issues can be monitored and treated by medical professionals, but only if they uphold the standard of care expected of their field. One common form of malpractice is a failure to recognize heart attack symptoms in women, even though medical professionals should be aware of the potential for female patients to present different symptoms.
- Stroke malpractice: Strokes are serious, and they can profoundly change your life if left untreated. Many people even die from untreated strokes. Sometimes, stroke patients go undiagnosed and are discharged from the hospital, leaving the condition to worsen. If negligence at St. Joseph’s Hospital means you or someone you know received substandard and negligent treatment, you could take legal action.
If your case does not fall under any of these categories, you can still call us. Our team handles a variety of different types of cases, and we may still be able to help you seek the justice you need after an act of hospital negligence.
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Why Should I Hire a Lawyer for a Malpractice Case Against St. Joseph’s Hospital?
As a patient who is suffering from negligence or as a family member seeking justice for a loved one, you know just how impossible it can feel to take on hospitals and their insurance companies. They have representatives who are prepared to push back on your claims of negligence and drain your energy and bank account.
At Freidin Brown, P.A., we are champions for Floridians who want to hold someone liable for their harm. We have spent the last four decades representing clients from all walks of life who are in need of justice, and we are ready to represent you. When you partner with our personal injury lawyers, you get a team that:
- Can draw on medical experts to support our claims of negligence and the impact of your losses on your life and well-being
- Knows how to navigate complex and changing medical malpractice laws and has experience filing lawsuits against hospitals
- Has a history of getting settlements and verdicts for malpractice clients, including multiple verdicts worth millions of dollars
- Will negotiate with insurers but will not hesitate to argue your case in front of a jury if hospitals are unwilling to negotiate. We have taken over 300 cases to trial, and we are prepared to do the same for you.
- Works to accurately assess all of your losses so every expense and damage is accounted for. You may need money for current and future medical expenses, lost income and earning potential, pain and suffering, emotional anguish, disability expenses, and even wrongful death damages like funeral expenses for deceased loved ones. We aim to get you every cent you need.
Let Freidin Brown, P.A.’s St. Joseph’s Hospital medical malpractice lawyers represent you today.
When Should I Call a Hospital Medical Malpractice Lawyer?
Call our firm as soon as possible after the incident of malpractice or when you discover signs of malpractice. Under Florida Statutes § 95.11 (4)(c), you generally have two years to file a lawsuit for malpractice. Some conditions can extend how long you have to act, but it will all depend on the circumstances of your hospital malpractice case.
The sooner you reach out to our team, the sooner we can get to work on your case and protect your right to just compensation.
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Does St. Joseph’s Hospital Have a History of Neglect and Malpractice?
St. Joseph’s Hospital is no stranger to lawsuits. Part of the BayCare Health System, St. Joseph’s has a primary location in Tampa with multiple care facilities on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and a few others in the larger Tampa Bay area. Here are just some of the legal actions the hospital has had to deal with:
- In 2001, one patient suffered from a preventable mistake. After Mr. William Cox was found incapacitated following a stroke, emergency personnel transported him to St. Joseph’s Hospital. The emergency room staff failed to obtain information regarding the details of Mr. Cox’s stroke, which was pertinent and necessary to treat him appropriately. He had an ischemic stroke, which is caused by a blood clot, and needed to be treated with tPA in order to dissolve the clots. Despite being admitted to the hospital with enough time to receive this treatment, however, medical professionals never considered it as an option, resulting in permanent paralysis and aphasia.
- In 2009, three young cancer patients allegedly died due to a dangerous fungus exposure that was released during a reconstruction project at St. Joseph’s Hospital. They died within only one month of their stay.
- In 2020, two parents suffered the tragic loss of their infant, Jacob. Kathryn and Travis Wilson not only had to deal with the passing of their son only three days after his birth, but they had to seek legal action as a result of St. Joseph’s Hospital allegedly losing their child’s remains after an autopsy.
Hold Hospitals and Medical Professionals Responsible for Harm at St. Joseph’s Hospital
When we admit ourselves to a hospital, we turn to medical professionals for help. There is no greater nightmare than realizing your trust was misplaced when you find that your health was negligently handled. Fortunately, you can take legal action and pursue justice.
At Freidin Brown, P.A., we have over a century’s worth of combined legal experience as medical malpractice lawyers and have obtained hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of our clients. Call us anytime for a free consultation.