Types of Cases We Handle
Unsafe or Negligent Discharge from Treatment
No patient should be abandoned, stranded, or pushed out without a plan, especially during active withdrawal. An unsafe discharge is not a difficult judgment call. It is a failure of the most basic duty of care.
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Being Discharged Into Danger Is Not a Treatment Outcome — It Is Abandonment
Discharge planning is not a courtesy — it is a clinical and legal obligation. When a facility kicks a patient out after a failed drug test with no transportation, no family notification, and no plan, they are not making a difficult judgment call. They are abandoning a person at the moment they are most at risk.
How negligence happens:
Patients kicked out after a drug test without support
Discharged at night with no transportation or safe place to go
No coordination with family, providers, or emergency services
Left vulnerable to relapse, overdose, or exploitation
The hours after an unsafe discharge are among the most dangerous in a person's recovery. Relapse, overdose, and death happen in the gap between a facility's front door and whatever comes next. Families who have lost someone in that window often carry guilt they should never have been given. The fault belongs to the facility that opened that door.
We Hold Facilities Responsible for Every Step — Including the Last One
Ryan and Susan investigate what discharge protocols the facility had in writing, what staff actually did, and whether the patient's condition warranted continued care at the time they were pushed out. These records — intake notes, discharge summaries, staffing logs — tell the story that facilities hope families never see.
We pursue full accountability for the harm caused at discharge, including wrongful death, overdose, relapse-related injury, and the devastating consequences of being left without support at the most critical moment in treatment. Every patient deserved a safe plan. When they didn't get one, someone is responsible.