Adams v. Poudre Valley Hospital District

This was an action to recover damages resulting from a staphylococcus infection. The parties appear in the same order as in the trial court and are referred to as plaintiff and the Hospital, respectively. The court granted the Hospital’s motion for summary judgment. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

The amended complaint set forth that the plaintiff contracted the infection at about the time she underwent surgery at the Hospital. Three statements of claim were alleged. The first was predicated upon negligence, and the second upon res ipsa loquitur with the allegation that the “injury. ..…