McIntosh Legal Nurses
Legal Nurse Consultants
Bringing Clarity to Medical-Related Cases
McIntosh Legal Nurses
Legal Nurse Consultants
Bringing Clarity to Medical-Related Cases
Introducing Your Medical-Legal Liaison
Having McIntosh Legal Nurses in your arsenal gives you insider knowledge developed over more than four decades on the front lines of the medical community. We bring a dynamic approach to help you litigate your case.
Save time by letting an experienced healthcare professional analyze medical records while you focus on your clients and clearing your docket.
Typically a medical-related case involves voluminous medical records from a variety of healthcare facilities and practitioners on different media and in different formats.
McIntosh Legal Nurses are seasoned professionals who conduct a comprehensive review of all records and articulate relevant information to assist in your case preparation. We have experience working in the following areas:
- Medical or nursing malpractice
- Personal injury
- Products liability
- Toxic tort or environmental
- Criminal acts
- Family law involving medical issues
- Medicare fraud
- Workers’ Compensation
- Eldercare and elder abuse
Our founder, Janice McIntosh, has a keen eye for details and compliance, which sets our practice apart.
An example of being detailed-oriented:
As the Quality Assurance Director for three different home health agencies, McIntosh ensured they met or exceeded Medicare/Medicaid standards of care.
An example of screening for merit:
Working on a case involving a home healthcare agency and identifying that they failed to adequately train their healthcare aids that then resulted in catastrophic failure.
An example of interpreting relevance to a case:
Working on a case involving transgender medical care involved massive medical records from numerous practitioners over an expanded time period from the gender assigned at birth to the anatomy that was presented.
As Legal Nurse Consultants, we put the puzzle pieces together as well as identify missing pieces and ones that don’t quite fit.
You know the importance of a report highlighting the significant medical events and pinpointing how they fit into the overall case analysis. That’s our specialty.
We can provide easy-to-read reports with summaries of medical events, chronologies, expected standards of care and deviations from the standard of care, causation, damage assessment, the impact of pre-existing conditions, and pain and suffering.
McIntosh Legal Nurses provide vital services at competitive rates.
Every case is different because every person is different. We’ll develop a customized plan to give you what you need to be well informed.
We understand the criticality of meeting deadlines. The sooner we get the records, the better equipped we are at meeting our deadlines so that you can make yours.
You need our services because you’re good at what you do. We’re good at what we do, and our skills are complimentary. Together, we’re better as a collective.
Screen Medical Cases for Merit
- Review and analyze medical records, hospital policies and procedures, along with other documents to interpret their relevance to your case.
- Determine which records are truly critical.
- Discover what records are missing or have been tampered with.
- Assess injuries and pre-existing conditions and their relationship to the case.
Develop a Report
- After reviewing records, develop a chronological timeline or write a narrative report.
- Reports can highlight the significant medical events and pinpoint how they fit into the overall case analysis.
Attend and Report on Independent Medical Examinations [IMEs]
- During a medical exam, having a medically trained person in the room with your client reassures and calms your client.
- We, as your Legal Nurse Consultant observer, can testify to what occurred during the exam.
Act as an Expert Fact Witness on Pain and Suffering
- Creating comprehensive reports from large quantities of records.
- We, as your Legal Nurse Consultant Expert Fact Witness, can testify to the facts that are found in the records.