Kitt v Okonta
2016 NY Slip Op 06955 [143 AD3d 601]
October 25, 2016
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 7, 2016


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 Patrina Kitt, as Administratrix of the Estate of Chmaar Kitt Scott, Deceased, Respondent,
v
Benjamin Okonta, M.D., et al., Defendants, and Brookhaven Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, Appellant.

Caitlin Robin & Associates, PLLC, New York (Caitlin Robin of counsel), for appellant.

Wallace & Associates, P.C., Brooklyn (Larry Wallace of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered September 30, 2015, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendant Brookhaven Rehabilitation & Health Care Center's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Although Brookhaven made a prima facie showing that it did not depart from good and accepted medical practices (see Lopez v Gramuglia, 133 AD3d 424, 425 [1st Dept 2015]; Matos v Khan, 119 AD3d 909, 910 [2d Dept 2014]), the report of plaintiff's medical expert raised triable issues of fact as to whether there was a departure and whether any departure was a proximate cause of decedent's death. In particular, plaintiff's expert opined that decedent presented to Brookhaven with symptoms and complaints indicative of a high risk for deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism (DVT/PE), which was not ruled out by testing done at a prior medical facility, that Brookhaven should have performed a diagnostic workup for DVT/PE and provided prophylactic anticoagulation treatment, and that it unreasonably delayed in sending decedent to the hospital when he was found on the floor vomiting 11 days after admission (see Bartholomew v Itzkovitz, 119 AD3d 411, 415 [1st Dept 2014]; Jiminian v St. Barnabas Hosp., 84 AD3d 647 [1st Dept 2011]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Richter, Manzanet-Daniels and Webber, JJ. [Prior Case History: 2015 NY Slip Op 31899(U).]