Opinion ID: 2296355
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Breach by D.C. General Hospital

Text: The failure of D.C. General Hospital to hospitalize Rosa immediately after the sonogram test constitutes a second basis for the District's negligence. According to Dr. Fales, once fetal death is confirmed, the standard of care requires the hospital to admit the patient immediately. Moreover, according to Drs. Berke and King, the hospital must also conform to the standard of care requiring immediate hospitalization of a patient who is sick in addition to presenting fetal death in utero. Rather than commencing immediate diagnosis and treatment, however, the hospital instead sent Rosa back to the Adams Morgan Clinic to fill out paperwork. The hospital, therefore, waited until 11:23 a.m. to admit Rosa into the emergency room. This evidence suffices to establish that D.C. General Hospital  in addition to the Adams Morgan Clinic  breached the standard of care.