Georgia medical malpractice allegations

Georgia Medical Malpractice Allegations Involving Piedmont

Public Georgia medical-malpractice complaints involving Piedmont facilities include allegations about emergency care, surgery, medication administration, imaging follow-up, and delayed treatment.

Overview

The case summaries below are short, source-grounded descriptions of allegations involving Piedmont facilities or related care settings. They are meant to help readers scan recurring issues while preserving the distinction between a filed allegation and a proven fact.

At a glance: 9 case summaries from public Georgia complaints. Care settings named most often: Piedmont Henry Hospital (2).

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Piedmont Augusta complaint alleges delayed response to post-thyroidectomy neck hematoma

This page concerns a thyroidectomy case at Piedmont Augusta Hospital in which a known risk of post-operative neck bleeding allegedly was not met with the immediate response required when a hematoma can compress the windpipe and suffocate the patient within minutes.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Healthcare
Care setting: Piedmont Augusta Hospital
Providers involved: Piedmont Augusta Hospital / Hospital staff
Alleged pattern: Post-thyroidectomy neck hematoma allegedly followed by delayed emergency response
Claimed harm: profound brain injury and death

Piedmont HealthcarePost-operative complicationsENT surgeryRead the case summary

Possible abscess on CT allegedly not worked up before discharge at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital

This page concerns an emergency-room visit to Piedmont Atlanta Hospital in which a CT reportedly showed a possible lower-back abscess, the radiology report recommended follow-up imaging, and the patient nevertheless was discharged without investigation of a condition that could lead to life-threatening sepsis.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Healthcare
Care setting: Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
Providers involved: Piedmont Atlanta Hospital / Emergency physician / Radiology
Alleged pattern: CT finding suggestive of abscess followed by discharge without follow-up imaging or investigation
Claimed harm: risk of life-threatening sepsis

Piedmont HealthcareDelayed or missed diagnosisEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Leg-amputation case after delayed treatment of clot following thrombectomy at Piedmont

This page concerns a clot that allegedly became obvious and remained treatable after a thrombectomy while the patient was in an intensive care unit, but several providers did not promptly examine, investigate, or treat it before the patient’s leg had to be amputated above the knee.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Healthcare
Care setting: Piedmont Healthcare
Providers involved: Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. / Intensive care unit providers / Resident physicians
Alleged pattern: ICU clot after thrombectomy followed by delay in examination, investigation, and treatment until above-knee amputation became necessary
Claimed harm: Above-knee leg amputation

Piedmont HealthcarePost-operative complicationsVascular surgeryRead the case summary

Piedmont Fayette complaint alleges discharge with undiagnosed cervical fracture after car crash

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Piedmont Fayette Hospital discharged a pregnant emergency-department patient after a car crash without diagnosing an odontoid fracture.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Healthcare
Care setting: Piedmont Fayette Hospital
Providers involved: Piedmont Fayette Hospital / Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. / Paul Oenick, PA / Saurabh Gupta, M.D. / Nadria D. Lyn, M.D.
Alleged pattern: Alleged emergency-department discharge after car crash despite possible cervical spine injury
Claimed harm: advanced odontoid fracture, permanent loss of neck mobility, and chronic pain

Piedmont HealthcareDelayed or missed diagnosisEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Piedmont Rockdale complaint alleges fatal Dilantin overdose despite patient warnings

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Piedmont Rockdale Hospital providers administered a fatal overdose of Dilantin after failing to reconcile the patient’s usual anti-seizure medication dose.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Healthcare
Care setting: Piedmont Rockdale Hospital
Providers involved: Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. / Piedmont Rockdale Hospital, Inc. / Blessing Ngozi Aneke, M.D. / Chinmaya Sharma, M.D. / Samuel Ogbuchi, M.D. / Roni Sharon, M.D.
Alleged pattern: Alleged administration of triple the patient’s usual Dilantin dose despite patient and family warnings
Claimed harm: severe Dilantin toxicity, neurologic decline, inability to swallow, cardiac arrest, and death

Piedmont HealthcareMedication errorEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Piedmont Hospital complaint alleges wrong-site nerve block before foot drop

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a patient at Piedmont Hospital received a nerve block on the wrong lower extremity before left-foot surgery.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Healthcare
Care setting: Piedmont Hospital
Providers involved: Piedmont Hospital, Inc. / Suzana Anic, M.D. / American Anesthesiology of Georgia, LLC
Alleged pattern: Alleged wrong-site popliteal nerve block before left-foot surgery
Claimed harm: right foot drop, numbness, and functional impairment

Piedmont HealthcareSurgical errorAnesthesiologyRead the case summary

Piedmont Henry complaint alleges ovarian-torsion delay before ovary loss and fetal death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers failed to diagnose and treat ovarian torsion in a pregnant patient with severe abdominal pain and known adnexal cysts.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Henry Hospital
Care setting: Piedmont Henry Hospital
Providers involved: Piedmont Henry Hospital, Inc. / Every Woman’s OB-GYN, LLC / Temitope Fapohunda, M.D. / Preyasi Kothari, M.D. / Reagan Burge, CNM / Kelli Kilpatrick, RN / Northside Hospital
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to investigate severe abdominal pain in pregnancy despite known adnexal cysts
Claimed harm: ovarian torsion, loss of the right ovary, and fetal death at 21 weeks

Piedmont Henry HospitalDelayed or missed diagnosisObstetricsRead the case summary

Piedmont Eastside complaint alleges appendicitis diagnosis delay across repeat visits before perforation

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that emergency-department and primary-care providers did not diagnose appendicitis across repeated visits for abdominal pain before it perforated.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Healthcare
Care setting: Piedmont Eastside Medical Center
Providers involved: Piedmont Eastside Medical Center / Eastside Medical Center, LLC / Clement Ayanbadejo LLC d/b/a Macley Family Practice and Walk-in Clinic / Matthew T. Tinkham, M.D. / Clement O. Ayanbadejo, M.D. / The Piedmont Clinic, Inc. / Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. / Team Health, Inc. / Team Health Holdings, Inc.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to reassess and re-image repeated abdominal-pain presentations over about ten days
Claimed harm: perforated appendicitis with peritonitis, abscess, sepsis, and a prolonged hospitalization

Piedmont HealthcareDelayed or missed diagnosisEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Piedmont Henry Hospital complaint alleges delayed sepsis treatment before a patient’s wrongful death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that emergency and intensive-care providers did not recognize or treat post-surgical sepsis before a patient’s death.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Henry Hospital
Care setting: Piedmont Henry Hospital
Providers involved: Piedmont Henry Hospital, Inc. / Piedmont Medical Care Corporation / Marlon Fisher, M.D. / Ashar Usmani, M.D. / Gregory Evans, M.D. / Clay Ditty, N.P.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to recognize and treat post-surgical sepsis before a delayed surgical diagnosis
Claimed harm: septic shock, multi-organ failure, and death

Piedmont Henry HospitalDelayed or missed diagnosisEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Related allegation types

Emergency-room discharge / failure to admit4 case summaries Surgical complication delay4 case summaries Bowel obstruction / abdominal emergency2 case summaries Orthopedic / spine surgical complication2 case summaries Radiology / imaging follow-up2 case summaries Airway / respiratory failure1 case summary Birth injury / OB emergency delay1 case summary Informed consent / wrong procedure1 case summary Medication error / overdose1 case summary Post-operative bleeding / hematoma1 case summary Sepsis / infection delay1 case summary

Other Georgia health systems

Allegations involving other health systems

Emory Healthcare35 case summaries Wellstar27 case summaries Northside Hospital19 case summaries Children's Healthcare of Atlanta21 case summaries Grady10 case summaries