Rowlett Hospital Faces Suit by Woman for Negligent Care

Mashell Darden
(Photo: Nathan Hunsinger)

Because of what she calls negligent care, Mashell Darden says she now receives dialysis three days a week, has had two strokes, brain surgery, blood clots, liver damage, a partial hysterectomy and heart surgery.

The mother of four is on a waiting list for a kidney transplant because she says, she contracted a potentially deadly blood infection while waiting overnight at a hospital for doctors to remove a fetus that had died.

Nearly three years later, Darden is in the midst of a lawsuit against Lake Pointe Medical Center in Rowlett and several members of its medical staff. The complaint states that in the 16 hours Darden was at the hospital, doctors failed to properly examine her until she had contracted a blood infection called sepsis and it had progressed into septic shock, which is often fatal.



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source: The Dallas Morning News (NIELSEN, 06/27/2011)