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Murray, Utah 84123
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Hospitals are modern medical facilities designed to meet the needs of healthcare patients in both planned and emergency situations. To that end, hospital administrators are responsible for recruiting and hiring qualified medical professionals and monitoring the caliber of care they provide. Doctors, nurses, technicians, and other medical staff have been entrusted with the health and well-being of the hospital’s patients. When one or more of these medical staff members injures a patient, the hospital may be liable for medical malpractice. Our medical negligence lawyers in the Salt Lake City, Utah area can provide you with the representation you need to get fair and just compensation for your injuries or the injuries of someone you love.
Because there are so many variables involved in the way disease and injury can affect the body, ill and injured patients cannot always be successfully treated. The body has a finite capacity for sustaining damage and is susceptible to injury and death; many acceptable treatments fail to cure disease or prevent death from occurring. So when hospital staff cannot successfully treat a patient, the failure is not necessarily grounds for a medical malpractice claim.
However, if hospital staff act without meeting the appropriate standard of care and resultantly cause injury or death to a patient, the hospital may be liable for negligence. In these instances, injured victims and families affected by the death of a loved one are legally entitled to monetary compensation. Our medical negligence lawyers, serving Salt Lake City and all of Utah, can analyze the facts of your case to determine if hospital negligence has occurred. If it has, we can pursue your claim and seek maximum damages for your losses.
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Hospital negligence is, unfortunately, quite common. The Institute of Medicine estimates that between 44,000 and 98,000 hospital deaths are caused by medical errors annually, making medical error one of the top ten causes of death in the United States.
The operating room is one of the more common sites for medical mistakes. Surgical errors such as wrong-site surgery, the use of unsanitary surgical instruments, and leaving surgical instruments inside a sutured wound are all typically grounds for hospital negligence claims. Although surgical mistakes account for a large number of hospital negligence cases, other common hospital mistakes include:
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If you have suffered a medical injury in a hospital setting, you should seek legal advice as soon as possible. Our medical negligence lawyers in the Salt Lake City, Utah area will provide a case evaluation for you free of charge. Please contact Siegfried & Jensen today to schedule a consultation.
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