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"The estate of Joyce Snow filed a wrongful death and medical malpractice suit against Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation in Madison County Circuit Court Feb. 16.<br /><br />Snow's husband, Michael Snow of Edwardsville represents the estate.<br /><br />The suit also names Joanna Janas-Kaminsky, M.D., Henry Purcell, M.D. and BJC Home Care Services.<br /><br />According to the complaint, the defendants were guilty of the following negligent acts:<br /><br /><li>Failure to monitor the International Normalization Ratio of Joyce during the time prior to her death on Feb. 19, 2005;<br /><br /><li>Failure to properly administer anticoagulation medications; and<br /><br /><li>Failure to recognize and/or correct over anticoagulation.<br /><br />Snow claims the negligence caused his wife to die due to a brain stem injury caused by an intracerebral-intracentrical hemorrhage that caused great conscious pain and suffering and her death.<br /><br />He claims the healthcare foundation failed to assure a safe health care environment, failed to assure appropriate health care to Joyce and failed to assure appropriate communication in a timely fashion with health care providers.<br /><br />Represented by Keith Short and Holly Reese of Edwardsville, Snow is seeking damages in excess of $150,000, plus costs.<br /><br />He also is seeking damages in excess of $50,000 claiming before his wife died he was accustomed to and did receive love, affection, and care and was dependent on her for the necessities of life that she provided.<br /><br />\"In addition, he was entitled to and did receive the consortium and society of Joyce Snow and other concomitants of married life,\" the complaint states.<br /><br />The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Daniel J. Stack.<br /><br /><i>07 L 162</i><br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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