Cook v. United States

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA CARMELA COOK, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) Case No. 16-CV-555-JED-JFJ v. ) ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) Defendant. ) OPINION AND ORDER I. Background Carmela Cook brings this action in her individual capacity and as personal representative of the Estate of Alice May Lindsey. According to the allegations in Ms. Cook’s Complaint, Ms. Lindsey was a patient of the Okemah Indian Community Hospital, a/k/a Creek Nation Community Hospital (the Hospital) beginning in 1987. In July, 2007, Lindsey went to the Hospital for complications…