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HOSPITAL NOT LIABLE FOR INJURIES CAUSED BY MENTALLY ILL PATIENT FOUR DAYS AFTER DISCHARGE.

The Second Department determined defendant hospital (HHC) was entitled to summary judgment in an action stemming from injuries caused by a mentally ill patient after discharge from defendant hospital. The patient, four days after discharge, attacked and stabbed employees of the residential facility where the patient resided. The hospital medical records supported the conclusion the patient did not qualify for involuntary psychiatric observation at the time of his release. The plaintiff's expert's opposing affidavit was conclusory and speculative:

“[D]octors or a governmental subdivision of the State that employs them cannot be held responsible for damages resulting from the actions of a psychiatric patient who has been released when the patient's release is a matter of professional judgment” … . For liability to attach, it must be shown that the decision to release the patient was “something less than a professional medical determination” founded upon careful examination of the patient … . “Evidence of a difference of opinion among experts does not provide an adequate basis for a prima facie case of malpractice” … . * * *

… [T]he plaintiffs submitted an expert affirmation opining that HHC deviated from accepted standards of medical practice and failed to make a careful examination by failing to contact [the patient's] psychiatric providers … and his … caseworker to inquire as to his condition and history of violence before making the determination whether to discharge him, and that those deviations proximately caused the plaintiffs' injuries. However, the expert failed to explain what, if any, information HHC did not already have which those parties could have provided, and which would have been necessary for a careful examination of whether [the patient] continued to meet the legal criteria for involuntary psychiatric observation, care, and treatment. The expert also failed to address the evidence that [the patient] did not meet the criteria for involuntary psychiatric observation, care, and treatment at the time of his discharge … . Stephen v City of New York, 2016 NY Slip Op 01827, 2nd Dept 3-16-16

NEGLIGENCE (MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, HOSPITAL NOT LIABLE FOR INJURIES CAUSED BY MENTALLY ILL PATIENT FOUR DAYS AFTER DISCHARGE)/MEDICAL MALPRACTICE (HOSPITAL NOT LIABLE FOR INJURIES CAUSED BY MENTALLY ILL PATIENT FOUR DAYS AFTER DISCHARGE)

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