Pedraza v. Wyckoff Heights Medical Center

OPINION OF THE COURT

Richard Rivera, J.

In this negligence action, plaintiff is the niece of the decedent *660as well as the administratrix of Ms. Garcia’s estate. Plaintiff claims that while Ms. Garcia was a patient of the defendant hospital in December 1998, the hospital failed to follow its internal Fall/Injury Prevention Protocol (the protocol) which required it to keep all the bed rails on the decedent’s hospital bed in the raised position at all times, and that plaintiff fell while one of the bed rails was in its lowered position. She seeks damages on behalf of the estate for the decedent’s…