Rachal v. Tenet Healthcare Systems

hDAVID S. GORBATY, Judge.

Defendant, Tenet Healthcare System Memorial Medical Center, Inc., appeals a judgment whereby the trial court dismissed the claims of plaintiffs original petition, with prejudice, but preserved plaintiffs rights to go forward with a tort claim asserted in an amended petition. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY:

Louise Rachal was admitted to Tenet Healthcare System Memorial Medical Center, Inc.’s Mercy Hospital campus (hereinafter Mercy Hospital) on November 25, 2000. The record does not reveal why Ms. Rachal was admitted to the hospital.…