Brachial plexus birth injuries in West Palm Beach & Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County runs seventy miles from Boca Raton and Delray Beach up through Boynton Beach, Wellington, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, and Jupiter, and its delivery landscape is just as spread out. What doesn't change across the county: when a delivery leaves a child with a brachial plexus injury, the case is a Palm Beach County case, built from the hospital's records, and governed by the same Florida rules as everywhere else. I represent Palm Beach County families statewide from Orlando.

Where Palm Beach County babies are delivered

St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach operates one of the region's highest-level NICUs and handles many of the county's high-risk deliveries; Good Samaritan Medical Center sits nearby downtown. To the south, Baptist Health's Boca Raton Regional Hospital and Bethesda Hospital East in Boynton Beach deliver much of the county's southern tier; Wellington Regional Medical Center and Palms West Hospital serve the western communities, and Jupiter Medical Center the north. A high-risk transfer to St. Mary's after a difficult delivery elsewhere is itself a detail worth noting in your timeline; tell me about it in the evaluation.

What Palm Beach County families should know

The fundamentals: most brachial plexus injuries fall outside NICA; Florida protects a child's claim until the eighth birthday while earlier clocks can run; and the risk factors that precede most shoulder dystocia injuries, such as a large baby, gestational diabetes, and a stalled labor, are documented in the prenatal chart before the delivery ever began. If your child's arm is still not right, the screening questions will tell you whether it's time to dig into those records. The review is free.