In an update to a story, we brought you back in September over the death of eleven-year-old Jessie Limas, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC) has acknowledged “systematic failures and treatment issues that contributed to Jessie Limas’ death.”
As we reported, the day after arriving at the hospital for abdominal pain, Jessie Limas died at El Paso Children’s Hospital. Her treatment by the medical staff of the children’s hospital was witnessed and documented by her mother, Nancy Limas, who is a Texas Registered Nurse. Nancy Limas detailed the various failures she witnessed that she says led to her daughter’s death.
Part of the medical staff that attended to Jessie Limas are resident doctors of Texas Tech University.
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In an apology letter provided to Nancy Limas as part of a settlement agreement accepted by Limas and Texas Tech University, the medical teaching facility admits to failures and commits to addressing the failures “to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.”
The letter, provided to us by Limas, who told in a telephone interview yesterday, that part of the settlement agreement she accepted was that Texas Tech University would provide her an apology letter and that the letter would not be subject to confidentiality.
In the letter, signed by Richard Lange, president and dean of the Foster School of Medicine, the teaching facility acknowledges that the death of Jessie Limas was the result of
“systematic failures and treatment issues”
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Letter, February 2024
that led to Jessie’s death.
In the letter, the hospital goes on to commit “to ongoing peer review” to focus “on implementing changes to address the issues we identify and to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.”
The El Paso Children’s Hospital is not part of the settlement and Limas told us she is evaluating her next steps to hold the children’s hospital accountable for the death of her daughter, Jessie Limas.
As we recently reported, the El Paso Children’s Hospital is before the Texas Supreme Court looking to keep crucial information about a doctor at the children’s hospital that “presents a real danger to his patients” (emphasis ours) be removed from public view in the case of the death of David Saucedo’s daughter on June 2022. The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether the children’s hospital can keep secret the so-called Mayes Affidavit.
Stay with El Paso News for continued coverage of the ongoing medical care crisis at El Paso Children’s Hospital.
Who is running this hospital? Has the County Judge given an opinion on this? Someone needs to be fired.
Dear Mr. Paredes! Dr. Lange mentions “SYSTEMIC failures of treatment issues” not SYSTEMATIC failures and treatment issues. Systemic and systematic are not interchangeable. Systemic relates to something that affects an entire system or organism. It’s commonly used in medical contexts to describe something that affects the whole body or system rather than just one part. SYSTEMATIC refers to something that is carried out according to a fixed plan or system. It implies an organized, methodical approach to something.