Brachial plexus birth injuries in Fort Lauderdale & Broward County

From Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood to Pembroke Pines, Pompano Beach, Coral Springs, Plantation, and Miramar, Broward County families are served by two large public hospital systems and several private ones. When a difficult delivery at any of them leaves a child with Erb's palsy or another brachial plexus injury, the claim belongs in Broward, where the delivery happened. I represent Broward families statewide from my Orlando office; in birth injury practice, the lawyer travels to the case.

Where Broward babies are delivered

The county's major obstetric services include Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale (home of the Salah Foundation Children's Hospital), Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood alongside Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, Memorial Hospital West in Pembroke Pines, Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, and Broward Health Coral Springs. A delivery chart from any of them tells the story that matters: the risk factors documented before labor, the course of labor itself, and, if the shoulder became stuck, the maneuvers used and the force applied.

A note about Broward's public hospital systems

Broward Health and Memorial Healthcare System are public systems, and claims involving public hospitals can implicate Florida's sovereign-immunity framework, affecting notice requirements, recovery caps, and strategy. That is not a reason for discouragement; it is a reason for early, careful legal analysis, which is exactly what the free case evaluation begins. The statewide fundamentals hold here too: NICA usually doesn't bar these claims, and Florida protects a child's claim until the eighth birthday, with earlier clocks that make waiting a risk.