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Article: Malpractice settlement costs $1 million St. Mary's, fund pay in suit that illustrates burn care overlap with Children's
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 3, 1998
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St. Mary's Hospital and an insurance fund have paid more than $1
million to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by parents of a
26-month-old girl who died in 1994 after being treated for burns at
the hospital.
Gwendolyn Ward was at St. Mary's for 17 days before she was
transferred, gravely ill, to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, where
she later died of burns she suffered in a scalding accident.
In addition to disputing the care she received at St. Mary's, the
lawsuit raised the larger issue of which of the two hospitals is most
appropriate to treat children with burns St. Mary's, which has the
state's only burn center, or Children's, which has a pediatric
intensive care unit ...