Salter v. Deaconess Family Medicine Center

—Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Plaintiffs’ four-day-old son sustained second degree burns on his leg and foot when defendant Katherine Battaglia, a nurse at defendant Deaconess Family Medicine Center (Center), a department of defendant Buffalo General Hospital (Hospital), placed a heated washcloth on his heel to facilitate drawing blood from him. According to Battaglia, because the Center did not have hot running water, she wet the washcloth and placed it in a microwave oven for one minute. After testing the cloth on her arm, Battaglia wrapped the cloth, covered…