Michigan High Court: Allegations Against Care Home ‘Sound In Medical Malpractice’

Mealey's (July 12, 2022, 1:16 PM EDT) -- LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court on July 7 affirmed an appellate court’s holding that new allegations in a daughter’s complaint against the nursing home where her father died “sound in medical malpractice” but reversed the appellate court’s holding that a standing order could not be admitted to establish the standard of care, finding that the standing order’s requirements to notify a physician immediately regarding aspiration risks “necessarily implicates medical judgment beyond common knowledge and experience,” therefore sounding in medical malpractice....