We are an independent consultancy service based in New York City that assists law firms with complex medical malpractice cases. We specialize in patient safety science to identify adverse events that contributed to serious patient harm. 

Our Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC) is a registered nurse licensed in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. Board-certified by the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) in Nursing Informatics (BC-NI) and certified in Patient Safety by the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. 

MVS has two decades of clinical experience as a nurse in various clinical and administrative areas with a focus in hospital quality, risk management, patient safety, nursing education, and regulatory affairs for academic medical centers and community hospitals.

We can assist your firm by providing the following services: 

• Affidavit of Merit

• Expert Witness Service

  • Deposition

  • Testimony

• Independent Medical Exam Observer 

• Defense Medical Exam Observer

• Medical Record Analysis

• Institutional Policy Review

• Institutional Standard Operating Procedures Review

• Regulatory & Accreditation Compliance Review 

• Medical Documentation Compliance Review

• Professional Scope of Practice and Credentialing Review

• Missing Records Identification

• Chronologies and Timelines of Adverse Events

• Root Cause Analysis

• Types of Cases: 

• Misdiagnosis

• Injury

• Negligence

• Delays in care 

• Failure to follow standard operating procedures or institutional policies 

• Failure to assess and document care appropriately

• Failure to identify and treat medical complications in a timely manner

• Regulatory Entities: 

  • The Joint Commission

  • Leapfrog Survey

  • State Health Departments 

• Clinical Areas:  

  • Medical/Surgical

  • Critical Care

  • Behavioral Health 

  • Outpatient clinic settings