Gabbett v. Pike County Memorial Hospital

CRIST, Judge.

Appeal from an order sustaining Pike County Memorial Hospital’s (hospital) motion for summary judgment based on sovereign immunity. We affirm.

Plaintiffs filed a malpractice suit against hospital for injuries sustained by plaintiff wife while a patient there. Plaintiffs’ alleged hospital’s admissions staff failed to note in plaintiff wife’s records she was taking a certain medication. As a result of this failure, it is alleged, she did not receive this medicine, which resulted in her suffering a stroke. Hospital asserted it has sovereign immunity.

Hospital is a county hospital…