BELLEVILLE St. Elizabeth s Hospital is accused of failing to properly diagnose and treat a patient s brain hemorrhage, which allegedly caused her to be permanently disabled.
Tracy Perkins, as guardian of the person and Estate of Ralpha Perkins-Davis, a disabled person, filed a complaint Jan. 5 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Kevin Thompson, M.D., Huzefa Chinwala, M.D., and St. Elizabeth s Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of The Third Order of St. Francis, doing business as HSHS St. Elizabeth s Hospital, alleging medical malpractice.
According to the complaint, Ralpha Perkins-Davis went to St. Elizabeth s Hospital s urgent care on Sept. 22, 2019, allegedly suffering from a severe headache and pressure behind her eyes. She was discharged on the same day. The plaintiff alleges, two days later, Perkins-Davis was seen at St. Elizabeth s ER and was again sent home without any diagnostic testing being done on her head. The plaintiff claims that later that same day, P