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HOSPITAL DID NOT DEMONSTRATE THE TREATING EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN WAS NOT AN EMPLOYEE AND DID NOT DEMONSTRATE THE EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN DID NOT DEPART FROM ACCEPTED STANDARDS OF MEDICAL CARE; THE HOSPITAL’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined the medical malpractice action against the hospital (Mercy) should not have been dismissed. The hospital failed to demonstrate the emergency physician (Hughes) was not an employee and failed to demonstrate the emergency physician did not depart from the accepted standards of care:

… [T]he Mercy defendants failed to establish, prima facie, that they could not be held vicariously liable for the alleged malpractice of Hughes on the ground that he was not an employee. The medical records submitted by the Mercy defendants in support of the subject branches of the motion established that the plaintiff arrived at the hospital for treatment of her abdominal pain through the emergency department, and not as a patient of any particular physician … . In addition, the affidavit of a registered nurse employed by the defendant Mercy Medical Center as a Director Risk Management/Privacy Officer contained no evidentiary basis to support her conclusory assertion that Hughes was not an employee of the hospital … .

The Mercy defendants also failed to establish, prima facie, that Hughes did not depart from accepted community standards of medical care in the treatment of the plaintiff, or that any departure by Hughes was not a proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injuries … . Pinnock v Mercy Med. Ctr., 2020 NY Slip Op 01374, Second Dept 2-26-20

 

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