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Miami Children’s Surgery Center: Ambulatory Pediatric Surgery at 7867 North Kendall Drive

A parent signs the consent form. The child is wheeled back. The anesthesiologist adjusts the dosage for a body that weighs 40 pounds. The surgeon operates. And when it is over, the child is expected to wake up in recovery, be monitored for a few hours, and go home the same day. That is how ambulatory pediatric surgery is supposed to work. Miami Children’s Surgery Center at 7867 North Kendall Drive handles these cases routinely. But an ambulatory surgery center is not a hospital. There are no inpatient beds. There is no pediatric ICU. If the anesthesia dosage is miscalculated for a child’s weight and the child does not emerge from sedation as expected, or if a post-operative bleed develops after the family has been sent home, the facility’s limitations become the center of the case. The cases we build from this facility focus on anesthesia errors in pediatric patients, wrong-site surgical procedures, failure to recognize post-operative complications before discharge, and the adequacy of the facility’s emergency transfer protocols when a child’s condition deteriorates.

Pediatric Gastroenterology Associates: 1,189 Reviews and the Procedures Parents Do Not Think to Question

Pediatric Gastroenterology Associates at 10045 South Dixie Highway is the highest volume pediatric GI practice in the Kendall corridor with nearly 1,200 patient reviews. When a gastroenterologist recommends an endoscopy or colonoscopy for a child, most parents assume the risk is minimal because the physician recommended it. But a colonoscopy perforation in a seven year old is not the same injury as one in a 55 year old. The bowel wall is thinner. The margin for error is smaller. The child cannot articulate the post-procedure symptoms that indicate something has gone wrong. Our pediatric malpractice cases from this practice involve endoscopy and colonoscopy complications in minors, missed diagnoses of inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn’s disease in children, and failures to follow up on abnormal biopsy results. The statute of limitations for injuries to a minor does not begin running until the child turns eight, which means parents who did not recognize the injury at the time still have a claim window that extends years into the future.

OB/GYN Associates of Miami at 9595 North Kendall Drive is the highest volume obstetric and gynecological practice in the Kendall corridor, with over 2,100 patient reviews and multiple physicians managing pregnancies simultaneously. The practice delivers at Baptist Health Baptist Hospital at 8900 North Kendall Drive. Baptist Hospital’s ER alone has nearly 12,000 patient reviews, making it the most reviewed emergency department in Miami.

In a high volume OB practice, the risk is not that the physicians are careless. The risk is that the physician who managed your pregnancy through nine months of prenatal visits may not be the physician who is on call when you arrive at the hospital in active labor at 2 AM. The covering physician has your chart but not your history. They are reviewing fetal monitoring strips on a patient they met for the first time 30 minutes ago. When those strips show late decelerations or a Category III pattern that requires immediate intervention, the question becomes whether the covering physician recognized the urgency as quickly as the physician who knew the patient would have. We retain perinatology experts who analyze the fetal heart tracing minute by minute and calculate whether the decision to incision time for an emergency cesarean met or missed the 30 minute benchmark that separates a healthy delivery from a catastrophic brain injury.

Three Individually Sueable OB/GYNs at One Address

There is a detail about group OB/GYN practices that changes the entire litigation strategy: each physician within the group can be named as an individual defendant. At 9595 North Kendall Drive, Dr. Ana Hernandez (340 reviews), Dr. Paola Bordoni (294 reviews), and Dr. Manal Antoun (302 reviews) all maintain individual patient relationships alongside the group practice. Women’s Healthcare of Kendall at 10700 North Kendall Drive is a separate practice with Dr. Suzette Delgado, who has 25 years of patient volume. In a birth injury case, identifying which physician was on call, which physician read the fetal monitoring strips, and which physician made the decision about when to intervene determines not only the theory of the case but the identity of the defendants. We map the call schedule, the nursing notes, the fetal monitoring timestamps, and the operative report to trace every provider whose conduct contributed to the outcome.

The patient came in complaining of intermittent numbness in the left arm and episodes of blurred vision that lasted a few minutes and then resolved. The neurologist ordered an MRI. The MRI was read as unremarkable. The patient was told the symptoms were likely migraines or stress related. Three months later, the patient suffered a massive stroke. The MRI, when re-read by our neurology expert, showed a small vessel abnormality that was present on the original study and should have triggered an urgent referral for vascular imaging.

The Neurology Group at 9055 SW 87th Avenue has over 1,000 patient reviews, making it the largest neurology practice in the Kendall corridor. At that volume, the practice evaluates patients with headaches, seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, and suspected stroke. The conditions that walk through that door range from benign to life threatening, and the neurologist’s job is to tell the difference. When they get it wrong, the injury is measured not by the missed appointment but by the permanent neurological deficit that could have been prevented with timely intervention. We retain neuroradiology experts who re-read the original imaging and neurology experts who evaluate whether the clinical presentation warranted the workup that was actually ordered.

Jackson South: The One Government Exception

Jackson South Medical Center at 9333 SW 152nd Street and UHealth Jackson Urgent Care at 13707 SW 152nd Street are the only government entities in the Hawley Heights catchment area. Under § 768.28, the current cap is $200,000 per claimant and $300,000 per incident. HB 145 (2026), awaiting the Governor’s signature with an October 1, 2026 effective date, would raise these to $350,000 and $500,000. Baptist Health Baptist Hospital, HCA Kendall, and every private practice along the North Kendall Drive corridor operate outside that framework entirely. What you recover from them is limited only by the evidence your attorney puts in front of the jury.

The Advantage of Having Sat on the Other Side of These Cases

Baptist Health’s legal team will call those fetal monitoring strips “reassuring” when they were anything but. A group OB/GYN practice will create confusion about which physician owned the critical decision by pointing fingers between the managing doctor and the covering doctor. A pediatric surgery center will wave the signed consent form and argue the parents accepted every risk. Attorney Jorge L. Flores built those exact defenses for years while working as an attorney for a leading insurance defense firm in Miami. He sat across the table from families like yours and helped hospitals avoid accountability. That experience is now the foundation of every case we prepare against a Kendall corridor provider.

When the Patient Is a Child, the Claim Window Is Longer and the Damages Are Larger.

Pediatric surgery errors, birth injuries, and neurological misdiagnosis at the highest volume practices in the Kendall corridor. Every defendant is private. We prepare these cases to withstand what the defense will throw at them.

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