What is hospital negligence?
When hospital workers fail to deliver reasonable care to their patients, who then suffer injury or illness as a result, they may be cited for hospital negligence. Hospital negligence may come in many different forms, including the following: • Failure to adequately monitor patients • Allowing the spread of disease among patients • Providing inadequate care • Neglecting patients • Distributing incorrect medications or dosages • Failure to exercise adequate hygienic practices • Failure to respond to changes of a patient’s condition in a timely manner • Record-keeping errors The results of these negligent errors can be quite devastating. Patients can suffer unnecessary complications of their current conditions or, in their immunodeficient states, contract another, serious illness.
