St. Luke\u2019s Hospital of Bethlehem can\u2019t be held liable for negligence claims tied to its treatment of a patient\u2019s pressure ulcers because the care falls under Pennsylvania\u2019s Mental Health Procedures Act immunity protections.<\/p>\n
The hospital\u2019s actions regarding Kenneth Wunderly\u2019s pressure ulcers\u2014which his wife asserted caused or contributed to his death\u2014constituted treatment under the statute because it was \u201c\u2018coincident\u2019 to his mental health treatment for dementia,\u201d the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said in a Thursday opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kenneth Wunderly was admitted to St. Luke\u2019s to be treated for his \u201caggressive and combative behavior\u201d related to his dementia. Wunderly had preexisting pressure ulcers, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Luke\u2019s Hospital of Bethlehem can\u2019t be held liable for negligence claims tied to its treatment of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10471,5725,10473,10472,3650,28,30,29,10474],"class_list":["post-13854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-executors","tag-hospitals","tag-immunity","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-mental-health-care","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-wrongful-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}