In re P.W. v. Children's Hospital Colorado

{1 In this original proceeding stemming from a medical malpractice action, we are asked to decide whether, as a matter of law, a known suicidal patient who is admitted to the secure mental health unit of a hospital and placed under high sulcide-risk precautions can be subject to a comparative negli-genee defense when the patient attempts suicide while in the hospital's custody. Plaintiff PW. sued Children's Hospital (the Hospital) both individually and as the conservator of his son K.W., who is in a minimally conscious state after suffering a devastating anoxic brain injury when he attempted…