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MCNEAL v. NORTHWEST IOWA HOSP. CORP.

No. 11-1036.

812 N.W.2d 722 (2012)

Ray MCNEAL, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of Crystal McNeal, a Minor, and Lee McNeal, Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NORTHWEST IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION, d/b/a St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

March 28, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willis J. Hamilton of Hamilton Law Firm, P.C., Storm Lake, for appellants.

Michael W. Ellwanger and Robert N. Stewart of Rawlings, Nieland, Killinger, Ellwanger, Jacobs, Mohrhauser & Nelson, L.L.P., Sioux City, for appellee.

Considered by EISENHAUER, C.J., and DANILSON and BOWER, JJ.

DANILSON, J.

The McNeals appeal from the district court's order granting summary judgment to defendant St. Luke's Hospital. Crystal McNeal, a pediatric patient at St. Luke's, underwent ear surgery on September 25, 2007.1 While Crystal was in the operating room, a pediatric nurse entered her room to change the sheets and make her bed. The nurse noticed a teddy bear, attached by a necklace, on the side rail of the bed touching the floor...

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