Georgia medical malpractice allegations

Georgia Medical Malpractice Allegations Involving Wellstar

Public Georgia complaint examples involving Wellstar facilities and care teams show how allegations about diagnosis, escalation, monitoring, and treatment are framed in filed malpractice cases.

Overview

These examples collect complaint-based summaries involving Wellstar entities, facilities, or providers. The purpose is to give readers a careful, allegations-only way to compare the care settings and claimed failures described in public filings. No listed allegation should be read as a finding that any provider acted negligently.

At a glance: 27 case summaries from public Georgia complaints. Care settings named most often: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center (5); Wellstar Kennestone Hospital (3); Wellstar North Fulton Hospital (3); WellStar Kennestone Hospital (2).

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Wellstar Kennestone complaint alleges delayed MFM consultation and failure to offer cerclage during IVF pregnancy

This page concerns a public medical-malpractice complaint alleging delayed specialist consultation and failure to offer cervical cerclage or other interventions during a high-risk second-trimester IVF pregnancy at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Kennestone Hospital
Providers involved: Wellstar Kennestone Hospital / Carey A. Dobbins, M.D. / Joseph Bryant, M.D. / Lawrence Nathan, M.D. / Wellstar Medical Group, LLC
Alleged pattern: High-risk IVF pregnancy with cervical incompetence allegedly followed by delayed MFM consultation and no cerclage offer
Claimed harm: pregnancy loss and post-operative complications including syncope, transfusion, and chest pain

Wellstar Health SystemDelayed treatmentObstetrics and gynecologyRead the case summary

Airway and respiratory failure case at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center after car crash trauma

This page concerns trauma care at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center in which severe chest trauma allegedly required prompt airway protection, but neither the emergency physician nor the trauma team secured the airway in time, and nursing staff allegedly failed to closely monitor the patient’s respiratory decline.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center / Dr. Richisa Salazar / Trauma team / Nursing staff
Alleged pattern: Severe chest trauma followed by failure to secure the airway, failed emergent intubation, and poor respiratory monitoring
Claimed harm: wrongful death from oxygen deprivation

Wellstar Health SystemAnesthesia and airwayEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Major chyle leak allegedly not identified or treated at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center

This page concerns care at Wellstar’s Atlanta Medical Center after spine surgery, where a major chyle leak allegedly went uninvestigated and untreated while whitish fluid drained through a suprapubic catheter for 11 days before sepsis and multi-organ damage caused death.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center / Medical staff
Alleged pattern: Post-spine-surgery chyle leak with liters of whitish fluid draining through a suprapubic catheter without investigation or treatment
Claimed harm: sepsis, multi-organ damage, and death

Wellstar Health SystemDelayed or missed diagnosisSpine surgeryRead the case summary

Wellstar complaint alleges bile leak and sepsis-treatment delay after gallbladder surgery

This page concerns a cholecystectomy at Wellstar that allegedly was unnecessary and performed without informed consent, followed by bile-leak and sepsis complications that multiple providers did not timely investigate or treat, along with asserted communication and coordination failures at the system level.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Health System
Providers involved: Wellstar Health System, Inc. / Dr. Grant Taylor / Multiple healthcare providers / Corporate defendants
Alleged pattern: Unnecessary cholecystectomy without informed consent followed by delayed investigation and treatment of severe complications
Claimed harm: Sepsis and chronic abdominal pain

Wellstar Health SystemInformed consentGeneral surgeryRead the case summary

Transverse-myelitis case allegedly misdiagnosed as conversion disorder at Kennestone

This page concerns an emergency neurological presentation at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in which the consulting neurologist allegedly failed to order contrast MRI of the entire spine and prematurely diagnosed conversion disorder instead of considering transverse myelitis.

Provider grouping: Kennestone Hospital
Care setting: WellStar Kennestone Hospital
Providers involved: WellStar Kennestone Hospital / Dr. James Armstrong / Consulting neurologist
Alleged pattern: Neurological emergency in a healthy 18-year-old followed by failure to order contrast MRI of the entire spine and premature conversion-disorder diagnosis
Claimed harm: Serious, permanent neurological injuries

Kennestone HospitalDelayed or missed diagnosisNeurologyRead the case summary

Wellstar Cobb Hospital complaint alleges failure to treat cerebellar stroke

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers at Wellstar Cobb Hospital failed to diagnose and treat a cerebellar stroke after a patient arrived with neurological symptoms.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Cobb Hospital
Providers involved: Wellstar Health System, Inc. / Wellstar Medical Group, LLC / South Fulton Emergency Physicians, LLC / Garret Douglas Anderson, M.D. / Matthew Joseph Lee, D.O. / Johnray Resurreccion Manao, RN
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to diagnose and treat cerebellar stroke after emergency presentation with neurological symptoms
Claimed harm: cerebellar stroke, brain injury, and wrongful death

Wellstar Health SystemDelayed or missed diagnosisNeurologyRead the case summary

Wellstar North Fulton complaint alleges airway-management delay after facial gunshot wound

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers at Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center delayed securing a patient’s airway after a facial gunshot wound, leading to prolonged hypoxia and permanent brain injury.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center / Mark L. Gravlee, M.D. / Sherieka S. Duncan, M.D. / Stephen A. McBride, II, M.D. / Woodley Mardy-Davis, M.D.
Alleged pattern: Alleged delay in securing airway after facial gunshot wound and progressive swelling risk
Claimed harm: prolonged hypoxia, severe permanent brain damage, and physical deficits

Wellstar Health SystemDelayed treatmentEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Wellstar North Fulton complaint alleges fetal-hernia diagnosis and delivery-delay failures

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that prenatal and delivery providers failed to diagnose congenital diaphragmatic hernia and failed to timely deliver a child after signs of fetal distress.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar North Fulton Hospital
Providers involved: Nile Women’s Healthcare / Wellstar North Fulton Hospital, Inc. / Katherine Cooke, CNM / Lynn Fisher, RN-CNM / Jigish Sheth, D.O. / Rachel A. Yakrus, M.D. / Hughan R. Frederick, M.D.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to recognize congenital diaphragmatic hernia on prenatal imaging and delayed C-section despite fetal distress
Claimed harm: oxygen deprivation, permanent brain injury, and lung injury to a minor child

Wellstar Health SystemDelayed or missed diagnosisObstetricsRead the case summary

Wellstar amended complaint alleges a bariatric-surgery leak went undiagnosed and surgery was delayed by transfers

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Wellstar-affiliated hospitals did not recognize or act on a bariatric-surgery patient’s bowel obstruction and leak for days. It alleges that transfers between hospitals then delayed her emergency surgery.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System, Inc.
Care setting: Atlanta Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar Health System, Inc. / Wellstar’s Kennestone Hospital, Inc. / Wellstar Medical Group, LLC / Atlanta Medical Center, Inc. / Atlanta Medical Center Physician’s Group, LLC / Larry Hobson, M.D. / Robert Hull, M.D. / Rachel Godlewski, M.D. / Mohan Punja, M.D. / Lucas Lathrop, M.D. / Zakia Boston, PA / Richard Rivera, PA / Brandee McDonald, NP / Emily Klingman, RN / Matthew Moore, RN / Joanna Stephens, RN / Jonathan Hopson, RN / Cimone Hamiter, RN / Caitilin Sampson, RN
Alleged pattern: Alleged days-long failure to diagnose a postoperative bowel obstruction and leak, then a delayed transfer for emergency surgery
Claimed harm: sepsis, bowel perforation, and death

Wellstar Health System, Inc.Delayed or missed diagnosisBariatric surgeryRead the case summary

WellStar North Fulton complaint alleges Pitocin continued despite warning signs in TOLAC before newborn’s brain injury

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that nurses continued Pitocin during a TOLAC labor despite signs of fetal intolerance, before a newborn’s brain injury.

Provider grouping: WellStar North Fulton Hospital
Care setting: WellStar North Fulton Hospital
Providers involved: WellStar North Fulton Hospital, Inc. / Allison Perry Mitchell, C.N.M. / Nkechinyere Brodie, C.N.M. / Lynn Earman, C.N.M. / Isis Obstetrics & Gynecology, LLC, d/b/a Nile Women’s Healthcare / Providence Wellness Center, LLC, d/b/a Providence Women’s Healthcare / Shelley Dunson-Allen, P.C., d/b/a Providence Women’s Healthcare
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to stop Pitocin and escalate care despite signs of fetal intolerance to labor and possible uterine rupture during a TOLAC induction
Claimed harm: uterine rupture and neonatal encephalopathy and permanent brain injury to a newborn

WellStar North Fulton HospitalBirth injuryObstetricsRead the case summary

Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center amended complaint alleges delayed response to fetal distress before a newborn’s death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that obstetric providers at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center did not timely respond to a nonreassuring fetal heart tracing. The tracing arose during labor, before a newborn’s death.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System, Inc.
Care setting: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center
Providers involved: Bradford Bootstaylor, M.D. / See Baby, LLC / Alphonzo Overstreet, Jr., M.D. / OBHG Georgia, Inc. / Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center, Inc. d/b/a Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center / Wellstar Health System, Inc. d/b/a Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center / Kwajalein Cleveland, C.N.M.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to timely recognize and respond to a nonreassuring fetal heart tracing during labor
Claimed harm: hypoxic injury and a newborn’s death nine days after delivery

Wellstar Health System, Inc.Failure to monitorObstetricsRead the case summary

Wellstar North Fulton amended complaint alleges delayed cesarean before newborn’s brain injury after uterine rupture

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a physician was not immediately available during a trial of labor after cesarean. The delay preceded an emergency cesarean performed after the uterus ruptured.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar North Fulton Hospital
Providers involved: Wellstar North Fulton Hospital, Inc. / Urania Davis, D.O. / Mia Wyatt, CNM / Lynn Earman, CNM / Isis Obstetrics & Gynecology, LLC d/b/a Nile Women’s Healthcare
Alleged pattern: Alleged delay in recognizing uterine-rupture warning signs and reaching an emergency cesarean during a trial of labor after cesarean
Claimed harm: newborn hypoxic-ischemic brain injury from a ruptured uterus

Wellstar Health SystemBirth injuryObstetrics and gynecologyRead the case summary

Emory Midtown complaint alleges a failed catheter and a pressure ulcer that worsened at Wellstar before death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that hospital nurses did not properly manage a catheter and pressure-ulcer wound care before the patient’s death.

Provider grouping: Emory Healthcare
Care setting: Emory University Midtown Hospital
Providers involved: Emory Healthcare, Inc. / Emory University / Wellstar Health System, Inc.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to manage a urinary catheter and follow wound-care orders for a worsening pressure ulcer
Claimed harm: unstageable pressure ulcer, pain, and death

Emory HealthcarePressure ulcersNursing careRead the case summary

Wellstar Atlanta and Emory Decatur complaint alleges pressure-wound neglect before a patient’s death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a hospital and a long-term acute care facility failed to prevent and treat a patient’s pressure wounds. The complaint alleges the neglect contributed to her death.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System, Inc.
Care setting: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar Health System, Inc. / Emory Healthcare, Inc.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to prevent and then adequately treat pressure wounds across a hospital stay and a long-term acute care stay
Claimed harm: stage 4 sacral pressure wound, prolonged wound treatment, and death

Wellstar Health System, Inc.Pressure ulcersNursing careRead the case summary

Wellstar Kennestone Hospital complaint alleges skilled-nursing pressure-ulcer neglect and understaffing

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a Wellstar hospital’s skilled-nursing unit failed to prevent and treat pressure ulcers during a 2021 stay. It says chronic understaffing contributed to the neglect.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System, Inc.
Care setting: Wellstar Kennestone Hospital
Providers involved: Kennestone Hospital, Inc. dba Wellstar Kennestone Hospital / Wellstar Health System, Inc.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to prevent, assess, and treat worsening pressure ulcers during a skilled-nursing stay allegedly affected by chronic understaffing
Claimed harm: progression from a small coccyx wound to a Stage IV pressure ulcer and unstageable wounds, pain, and a serious decline in health

Wellstar Health System, Inc.Pressure ulcersSkilled nursing careRead the case summary

Wellstar Douglas Hospital complaint alleges delayed delivery amid fetal heart concerns before a newborn’s brain injury

This page concerns a complaint alleging that Wellstar Douglas Hospital providers did not properly assess and respond to a nonreassuring fetal heart rate. It alleges this delayed delivery. A transport team then allegedly rewarmed the newborn instead of keeping him cooled during his transfer.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System, Inc.
Care setting: Wellstar Douglas Hospital
Providers involved: Kendy Verpile, M.D. / Center for Women’s Health and Aesthetics LLC / Kristine Marie Raynard, CNM / Natalie Ronnette Brathwaite, M.D. / Wellstar Medical Group, LLC d/b/a Wellstar North Douglas OB/GYN / Douglas Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Wellstar Douglas Hospital / Wellstar Health System, Inc. / Egleston Children’s Hospital at Emory University, Inc. d/b/a CHOA Egleston Children’s Hospital
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to respond to a nonreassuring fetal heart rate during a Pitocin-augmented induction, delaying delivery
Claimed harm: hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy after resuscitation at birth and rewarming during a transfer for cooling

Wellstar Health System, Inc.Birth injuryObstetricsRead the case summary

Atlanta Medical Center South complaint alleges no fall precautions before a sedated patient fell and hit his head

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that psychiatric-unit staff did not order fall precautions before an at-risk patient fell and hit his head.

Provider grouping: WellStar Health System
Care setting: Atlanta Medical Center South
Providers involved: Gregory C. Lunceford, M.D. / WellStar Health System, Inc. / WellStar Atlanta Medical Center, Inc.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to order or communicate fall precautions for a sedated psychiatric inpatient with stroke-related paresis
Claimed harm: unwitnessed fall and head injury during an involuntary psychiatric admission

WellStar Health SystemFailure to monitorPsychiatryRead the case summary

Wellstar North Fulton Hospital complaint alleges a stroke patient needing one-to-one feeding was alone when hot broth burned him

This page concerns a complaint alleging that nurses did not give a stroke patient one-to-one feeding assistance. Hot broth burned him while he was alone.

Provider grouping: Wellstar North Fulton Hospital, Inc.
Care setting: Wellstar North Fulton Hospital
Providers involved: Wellstar North Fulton Hospital, Inc. / Carmen Hampton, R.N. / Gheorghe S. Balan, R.N.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to provide one-to-one feeding assistance for a stroke patient with left-side and cognitive deficits
Claimed harm: second-degree burns from hot broth while he was alone

Wellstar North Fulton Hospital, Inc.Negligent hiring or supervisionNursingRead the case summary

WellStar Atlanta Medical Center complaint alleges stroke-diagnosis delay before patient’s death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a Georgia hospital and its physicians missed a stroke for hours before the patient’s death.

Provider grouping: WellStar Health System
Care setting: WellStar Atlanta Medical Center South Campus
Providers involved: WellStar Health System, Inc. / WellStar Atlanta Medical Center, Inc. / ApolloMD, Inc. / Jimson Smith, M.D. / F&S Radiology, P.C. (d/b/a and/or a/k/a Radisphere, Candescent Health, Inc., and/or Sheridan Radiology Management Services, Inc.) / Johnny Alexander, M.D.
Alleged pattern: Alleged hours-long delay in stroke screening, CT review, and neurology consultation after an emergency-department presentation
Claimed harm: massive stroke, loss of eligibility for clot-dissolving treatment, and death

WellStar Health SystemStrokeEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center complaint alleges doctors did not review an x-ray showing an ankle fracture

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center staff overlooked an ankle fracture that then went untreated.

Provider grouping: Wellstar
Care setting: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center
Providers involved: Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center, Inc. / Wellstar Medical Group, LLC / ACS Primary Care Physicians-Southeast, P.C. / Sparlin Health Care, LLC / Katherine Kohler, MD / Melissa Smith, MD / Jonathan Overcash, MD / Nikhil Patel, MD / Daniella Kington, MD / Ebenezer Enchia, MD / Kim Eubanks, MD / James Sartori, PA
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to review an ankle x-ray and radiologist report showing a fracture after a trauma admission
Claimed harm: ankle fracture that went untreated and was not communicated to the patient, with continued ankle pain

WellstarDelayed or missed diagnosisTrauma medicineRead the case summary

WellStar Roswell Imaging Center complaint alleges a misread breast ultrasound before a metastatic cancer diagnosis

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a radiologist misread a breast ultrasound as benign before the patient’s cancer became incurable.

Provider grouping: WellStar Health System
Care setting: WellStar Roswell Imaging Center
Providers involved: Asad Hayat, M.D. / Quantum Radiology, P.C. / WellStar Health System, Inc. / WellStar North Fulton Hospital, Inc. d/b/a WellStar Roswell Imaging Center
Alleged pattern: Alleged misinterpretation of a breast ultrasound as benign despite visible abnormalities
Claimed harm: two-year diagnostic delay and progression to Stage IV metastatic breast cancer

WellStar Health SystemDelayed or missed diagnosisRadiologyRead the case summary

WellStar Paulding Hospital complaint alleges a missed colon perforation before a patient’s death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a surgeon did not notice a colon perforation from a gallbladder operation. It alleges a hospital nurse then delayed the patient’s return to care before he died of peritonitis.

Provider grouping: WellStar Health System, Inc.
Care setting: WellStar Paulding Hospital
Providers involved: Mark H. Middleton, M.D. / WellStar Health System, Inc.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to detect a colon perforation during gallbladder surgery, then a delayed response to reported symptoms
Claimed harm: fatal post-cholecystectomy peritonitis less than 36 hours after surgery

WellStar Health System, Inc.Post-operative complicationsGeneral surgeryRead the case summary

WellStar Douglas Hospital complaint alleges misread x-ray missed knee dislocation before leg amputation

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that an emergency physician and a radiologist did not diagnose a knee dislocation on an x-ray. The delay preceded a leg amputation.

Provider grouping: WellStar Health System
Care setting: WellStar Douglas Hospital
Providers involved: WellStar Health System, Inc. d/b/a WellStar Douglas Hospital / Shivaprakash Tumkur, MD / Quantum Radiology, PC / Lawrence Segal, DO / The Bortolazzo Group, PC
Alleged pattern: Alleged misread emergency-department x-ray that missed a knee dislocation
Claimed harm: popliteal artery injury and right through-knee amputation

WellStar Health SystemImaging misreadEmergency medicineRead the case summary

Wellstar Urology complaint alleges a surgeon missed CT scan signs of infection before the patient’s death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a urologist missed signs of infection on a postoperative CT scan. The patient died days later.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Kennestone Hospital
Care setting: Wellstar Kennestone Hospital
Providers involved: Daniel M. Mollengarden, M.D. / Wellstar Medical Group, LLC d/b/a Wellstar Urology
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to properly interpret a postoperative CT scan and timely address developing intra-abdominal sepsis after bladder-cancer surgery
Claimed harm: septic shock, renal failure, and death

Wellstar Kennestone HospitalDelayed or missed diagnosisUrologyRead the case summary

Wellstar Medical Group complaint alleges repeated gout misdiagnosis before a diabetic patient’s necrotizing fasciitis

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that urgent-care and family-medicine physicians repeatedly misdiagnosed a diabetic patient’s foot infection as gout.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Medical Group, LLC
Care setting: WMG Urgent Care and WMG Family Medicine at East Cobb Health Park
Providers involved: Wellstar Medical Group, LLC / Pelham Williams, MD / Lloyd D. Weddington, MD
Alleged pattern: Alleged repeated misdiagnosis of gout in a diabetic patient with a worsening foot infection, mostly without imaging or lab testing
Claimed harm: necrotizing fasciitis requiring amputation of the great toe and skin grafting

Wellstar Medical Group, LLCDelayed or missed diagnosisUrgent careRead the case summary

WellStar North Fulton Primary Care complaint alleges untreated infection before sepsis and brain injury

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a primary care physician did not investigate a patient’s fever and other symptoms. The delay preceded sepsis and a hypoxic brain injury.

Provider grouping: WellStar Medical Group
Care setting: WellStar North Fulton Primary Care
Providers involved: WellStar Medical Group, LLC / Dr. Sidharth Sharma
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to work up fever, chills, and gastrointestinal symptoms at a single primary-care visit
Claimed harm: undiagnosed bacterial infection leading to sepsis and hypoxic brain injury

WellStar Medical GroupDelayed or missed diagnosisPrimary careRead the case summary

WellStar Kennestone complaint alleges a retained appendix before recurrent appendicitis and a second surgery

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a surgeon did not remove a patient’s appendix during an appendectomy. A second surgery followed more than a year later.

Provider grouping: WellStar Health System
Care setting: WellStar Kennestone Hospital
Providers involved: David Elwood, MD / WellStar Surgical Associates of Marietta, LLC / WellStar Medical Group, LLC / WellStar Health System, Inc. d/b/a WellStar Kennestone Hospital
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to identify and remove the appendix during a laparoscopic appendectomy
Claimed harm: recurrent appendicitis and a second surgery

WellStar Health SystemSurgical errorGeneral surgeryRead the case summary

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Radiology / imaging follow-up8 case summaries Sepsis / infection delay7 case summaries Birth injury / OB emergency delay6 case summaries Surgical complication delay5 case summaries Bowel obstruction / abdominal emergency4 case summaries Pressure ulcers / wound care3 case summaries Airway / respiratory failure2 case summaries Delayed stroke diagnosis2 case summaries Orthopedic / spine surgical complication2 case summaries Informed consent / wrong procedure1 case summary

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