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FAILURE TO PROPERLY ASSESS A PATIENT’S RISK OF FALLING AND NEED FOR SUPERVISION SOUNDS IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, NOT NEGLIGENCE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the action sounded in medical malpractice, not negligence. Plaintiff’s decedent, who was blind, fell from an examining table when the nurse stepped away to throw away gauze in a nearby trash can:

Allegations that a health care provider improperly assessed a patient’s risk of falling and need for supervision or restraint, in light of his or her medical condition, “implicate questions of medical competence or judgment linked to . . . treatment” (Weiner v Lenox Hill Hosp., 88 NY2d at 788) and, therefore, sound in medical malpractice … . Here, the essence of the allegations was that the defendants were negligent in their assessment of “the level of supervision, nursing care, and security required for [Davis],” in light of her physical condition and the administration of narcotic medications … . Such allegations sound in medical malpractice as opposed to ordinary negligence … .

Accordingly, the Supreme Court erred in denying the defendants’ cross-motion to compel the plaintiff to serve a certificate of merit and notice of medical malpractice and to transfer the action from the general negligence part to the medical malpractice part. Snow v Gotham Staffing, LLC, 2024 NY Slip Op 02833, Second Dept 5-22-24

Practice Point: Failure to properly assess a patient’s risk of falling and need for supervision sounds in medical malpractice, not ordinary negligence.

 

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