Boudreaux v. Columbia Memorial Hospital

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Platkin, J.), entered December 22, 2016 in Albany County, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Plaintiff worked for an entity that provided residential care to developmentally disabled adults, and her work involved caring for those individuals. The residents required supervision and, should one be hospitalized, plaintiff or another in her position would be assigned to stay with him or her. A resident was hospitalized at defendant and, while plaintiff was tending to him on April 30, 2012, he became combative…