Georgia medical malpractice allegations

Georgia Medical Malpractice Allegations Involving Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Public Georgia complaint examples involving Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and pediatric care settings include allegations about emergency evaluation, discharge decisions, transplant verification, and delayed escalation.

5 5 case summaries from public case filings.

Provider allegation page Georgia medical-malpractice summaries grouped for easier comparison.

Allegations Summaries are drawn from public filings and are not findings of liability.

Overview

The summaries below describe pediatric medical-malpractice allegations from public filings involving Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, CHOA, or related care settings. They are presented as allegations only, with links to the full case summaries for readers who want the more detailed discussion.

Notice

This page only summarizes allegations from a complaint or source case summary. Allegations are not proof. Defendants are presumed not liable unless and until a court rules otherwise.

How to read these summaries

Each card is a short allegation summary. The linked case summary gives the fuller source-grounded description of the public filing.

The grouping is meant to help readers compare recurring care settings, medical issues, alleged failures, and claimed injuries without treating the allegations as proven facts.

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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta complaint alleges identical-twin stem cell transplant without genetic confirmation

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and two physicians proceeded with a pediatric stem cell transplant represented as allogeneic without first confirming whether the twin sibling donor was genetically identical to the recipient.

Provider grouping: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Care setting: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Arthur M. Blank Hospital
Providers involved: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta / Alan Bidgoli, MD / Diana M. Fridlyand, MD / Transplant team
Alleged pattern: Allogeneic stem cell transplant using twin sibling donor allegedly performed before confirming whether the twins were genetically identical
Claimed harm: loss of intended allogeneic transplant benefit and increased recurrence risk

Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaDonor verification failurePediatric oncology Read the case summary

CHOA complaint alleges child discharged despite worsening bowel-obstruction symptoms

This page concerns a pediatric emergency case at CHOA in which a physician recognized a substantial stool obstruction, unsuccessful bedside treatment did not relieve it, the child nevertheless was discharged despite worsening signs, and she returned in critical condition before dying after emergency surgery.

Provider grouping: Children’s Hospital of Atlanta
Care setting: CHOA emergency department
Providers involved: CHOA emergency department / Dr. Michael Greenwald / Nurse Gabriel Ribeiro
Alleged pattern: Substantial bowel obstruction followed by discharge home despite worsening symptoms and failed bedside treatment
Claimed harm: Wrongful death

Children’s Hospital of AtlantaBowel obstructionPediatric emergency medicine Read the case summary

Worthy complaint alleges repeated CHOA-Hughes Spalding discharges before pediatric pneumonia death

This page concerns a public complaint captioned Worthy v. Emory Healthcare Inc. alleging that a pediatric patient died after repeated emergency-room and pediatric-office encounters in which providers allegedly failed to perform diagnostic testing or admit the child despite abnormal vital signs.

Provider grouping: Emory Healthcare / Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Care setting: CHOA-Hughes Spalding Emergency Room
Providers involved: Emory Healthcare Inc. / Emory University / The Emory Clinic, Inc. / Children’s Hospital Atlanta / CHOA-Hughes Spalding Emergency Room / Jennifer M. Collier-Madon, M.D. / Mark A. Griffiths, M.D. / Kaley L. French, M.D. / Anjali S. Chaudhari, M.D. / Rajani Chaudhari, M.D. / Rajani Chaudhari MD/PC
Alleged pattern: Alleged repeated pediatric emergency and office discharges without pneumonia workup or admission
Claimed harm: death from extensive advanced pneumonia, pleuritis, and empyema

Emory Healthcare / Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaFailure to diagnose pneumoniaPediatrics Read the case summary

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston complaint alleges delayed recognition of need for neurosurgery

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, pediatric neurosurgery providers, and related entities failed to recognize the need for urgent surgical intervention after headache presentations and CT imaging.

Provider grouping: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Care setting: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
Providers involved: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. / Pediatric Neurosurgery Associates at Children’s, LLC / Emory University, Inc. / David Michael Wrubel, M.D. / Joshua Jiachuh Chern, M.D. / Reem Amer Dawoud, M.D. / Fadi Paul Jacob, M.D.
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to recognize need for urgent neurosurgical intervention after headache presentations
Claimed harm: spinal stroke, brain injury, permanent disability, inability to walk, and ongoing medical expenses

Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaFailure to diagnosePediatric neurosurgery Read the case summary

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding complaint alleges improper discharge before fatal epiglottitis

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding improperly discharged a pediatric patient with abnormal vital signs and respiratory symptoms before the patient died from acute epiglottitis and pneumonia.

Provider grouping: Emory University / Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Care setting: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding
Providers involved: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding / Alesia Fleming, M.D. / Jenna Gorbatkin, M.D. / Emory + Children’s Pediatric Institute, Inc. / Emory University
Alleged pattern: Alleged discharge of a pediatric patient with abnormal vital signs and respiratory symptoms
Claimed harm: death from acute epiglottitis and pneumonia two days after emergency-department discharge

Emory University / Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaFailure to diagnoseEmergency medicine Read the case summary

Related allegation types

Pediatric emergency / discharge 4 case summaries Emergency-room discharge / failure to admit 3 case summaries Airway / respiratory failure 2 case summaries Bowel obstruction / abdominal emergency 1 case summary Delayed stroke diagnosis 1 case summary Informed consent / wrong procedure 1 case summary Radiology / imaging follow-up 1 case summary