Hoemke v. New York Blood Center

OWEN, District Judge:

Andree Walton Hoemke, a forty-six year old woman who allegedly contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion she received in November, 1981, during kidney stone surgery at defendant New York Hospital (“Hospital”), brought this diversity suit against her treating physicians, the Hospital, and the Hospital’s blood bank. Discharged from the Hospital in December, 1981, Ms. Hoemke last received follow-up care from the defendant doctors, at their group offices, in August, 1982. Symptoms of AIDS began appearing in April, 1986, but remained undiagnosed until March, 1987. In December,…