Medical Malpractice
This page is about medical malpractice lawsuits against Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) in Towson, Maryland.
A relative newcomer by Maryland hospital standards, Greater Baltimore Medical Center was founded in Baltimore County in 1965 and is now a 275-bed hospital. It sees more than 23,000 inpatient admissions and over 50,000 emergency room visits per year. Its main campus sits off North Charles Street in Towson.
GBMC has numerous departments and specialties, including obstetrics & gynecology, general surgery, emergency medicine, cardiology, and oncology/cancer care. GBMC HealthCare also includes GBMC Health Partners and Gilchrist.
GBMC Is a Good Hospital But…
Maryland has some wretched hospitals you should avoid. But GBMC is a good hospital. Many Maryland medical malpractice lawyers we know have their children delivered at GBMC if that tells you anything. You would never walk into a courthouse in Maryland and tell the jury GBMC is a terrible hospital. They wouldn’t buy it.
But medical malpractice – awful medical malpractice – occurs in every hospital and GBMC is no exception. Juries do understand this. Medical malpractice can occur in any hospital, regardless of its reputation or quality of care.
There are two reasons for this. The first is good doctors and nurses can make bad mistakes. The second is bad doctors slip through the cracks and find their way into good hospitals.
That distinction matters in a GBMC malpractice lawsuit. The case is not that GBMC is a bad hospital. The case is that a particular doctor, nurse, or hospital team made a specific mistake that caused a serious injury that should not have happened.
Where To File GBMC Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
GBMC is located in Baltimore County. This county is typically considered to be conservative in personal injury cases. Still, our lawyers believe the right cases can be successful anywhere, and we have had a lot of success settling cases and at trial in Baltimore County.
Most good attorneys try to keep lawsuits against GBMC in Baltimore City Circuit Court. One argument that has been used in cardiac cases is GBMC’s relationship with Johns Hopkins. That relationship continues today. Johns Hopkins physicians provide cardiac services at GBMC, and there is a Johns Hopkins Heart Center on the GBMC campus.
But having business connections to Baltimore City does not necessarily mean a malpractice case involving care at GBMC will stay there.
There is a useful example in Guy v. Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The plaintiff filed a birth injury malpractice lawsuit against GBMC and several doctors in Baltimore City. The alleged negligent treatment occurred at GBMC in Baltimore County. The case was transferred to Baltimore County on forum non conveniens grounds, and the Appellate Court of Maryland, then called the Court of Special Appeals, affirmed the transfer in 2021.
That opinion was unreported, so it is not precedent. But it is a good reminder of the practical problem plaintiffs face when trying to keep a GBMC malpractice case in Baltimore City when the treatment, hospital, and many of the witnesses are in Baltimore County.
Venue is fact-specific. The plaintiff’s residence, the defendants, where the negligence occurred, where witnesses are located, and the connections each jurisdiction has to the case can all matter.
Serving Greater Baltimore Medical Center
If you are suing GBMC, make sure you verify the hospital’s current resident agent before serving the lawsuit.
A 2026 Maryland court filing identifies:
Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Inc.
6701 North Charles Street
Towson, Maryland 21204
Resident Agent:
Carl Jean-Baptiste
6701 North Charles Street
Towson, Maryland 21204
Carl Jean-Baptiste is also GBMC HealthCare’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Legal Services.
Resident-agent information can change. So do not blindly copy this information into a new lawsuit two years from now. Check the current Maryland corporate record before service.
GBMC’s Legal Defense Team
The lawyers at Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP, and Waranch & Brown, LLC have defended GBMC in malpractice cases. They are excellent malpractice lawyers and well respected in the legal community. Do they lose malpractice cases? Absolutely. But to beat them, you need both a good case and good plaintiffs’ lawyers.
Waranch & Brown publicly identifies Greater Baltimore Medical Center as one of the hospitals it has represented. Goodell DeVries lawyers have also represented GBMC in medical malpractice litigation.
GBMC Medical Records: How to Order Them
The first step in determining whether you have a medical malpractice case is for you or your lawyer to order the medical records.
GBMC medical records can currently be obtained from:
GBMC Release of Information
6701 North Charles Street
Suite 3277
Towson, Maryland 21204
Phone: 443-849-2274
Fax: 443-849-3223
Email: medicalrecordrequests@gbmc.org
GBMC requires a signed authorization before releasing medical records. The hospital currently provides copies of medical records to patients without charge.
Patients can access portions of their records through MyChart. But if you are investigating a potential malpractice case, you usually want the complete medical record, not merely whatever happens to appear in the patient portal.
Depending on the case, that may include physician and nursing notes, medication administration records, laboratory results, imaging reports and images, operative reports, anesthesia records, fetal monitoring strips, pathology, consent forms, and other records that may not all appear together in MyChart.
What Does a GBMC Medical Malpractice Case Look Like?
The cases involving GBMC over the years make an important point. These are not usually cases built around some broad argument that GBMC provides bad care.
They involve specific mistakes.
The allegations in GBMC cases have included failure to timely diagnose a stroke, failure to diagnose cancer, delayed C-section, surgical mistakes, aspiration during labor, failure to recognize postoperative complications, infection, and birth injuries involving oxygen deprivation.
That is what we are looking for when someone calls us about a potential GBMC malpractice claim. What exactly did the doctor or hospital do wrong? What should have happened instead? And, most importantly, can we prove that the mistake caused the injury?
Previous Lawsuits Involving GBMC
Below are some of the claims that have been made against this hospital and, when available, the allegations raised in the lawsuit:
- Dermota v. GBMC: failure to treat surgery complications leads to patient committing suicide
- Regel v. GBMC: undiagnosed endocarditis leads to hearing loss
- Fava v. GBMC: failure to diagnose liver cancer
- Williams v. GBMC: failure to perform a C-section (gestational diabetes) causing a brachial plexus injury in the child’s left arm
- Arbogast v. GBMC: Back surgery malpractice case involving a misplaced screw. You can get details of this case here.
- Kirby v. GBMC: Failure to timely diagnose and treat stroke claim that included Johns Hopkins as a defendant.
- Hill v. GBMC: Birth injury case involving a brain injury from oxygen deprivation.
- Troung v. GBMC: Negligent treatment of a woman who vomited and aspirated during labor.
- Armacost v. GBMC: Neck injury during surgery.
- Jones v. GBMC: Negligent delivery during labor.
- Thornton v. GBMC: Infant wrongful death in childbirth.
- Andrews v. GBMC: Surgical negligence.
- Siebert v. GBMC: Infection.
Settlements and Verdicts Involving GBMC
- Faulcon v. GBMC $1,200,000 Verdict. A Baltimore County jury returned a $1.2 million medical malpractice verdict in 2025 after a 77-year-old woman died during colorectal surgery at GBMC. She was undergoing a colorectal resection for early-stage rectal cancer when she suffered severe bleeding and went into cardiac arrest. The plaintiff alleged that the surgeon and GBMC failed to adequately anticipate and prepare for the hemorrhage, including failing to have critical equipment available to control the bleeding. The jury found negligence and awarded $1.2 million.
- Ward v. GBMC $2,400,000 Verdict. A 40-year-old woman underwent mastectomy surgery at GBMC to treat breast cancer after a tumor was found in her right breast. After the surgery, GBMC and Advanced Radiology negligently failed to identify that the tumor had not been removed during the surgery, causing the cancer to progress further and forcing the plaintiff to undergo additional surgery.
- Palmer v. GBMC $450,000 Verdict. A former smoker voluntarily attended a lung cancer screening program at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in 2005, where a CT scan revealed an abnormality in his upper right lung. His primary care physician recommended arranging annual scans but never did. By the time lung cancer was diagnosed in 2010, it had already advanced to stage four. He died two years later. The estate and surviving family filed a suit against the primary care physician, the medical center, and the two radiologists who discovered the abnormality. After a nine-day trial, a jury found the primary care physician liable, but not the hospital, and awarded over $160,000 in economic damages and $300,000 in noneconomic damages.
- Barnes v. GBMC $1.1 Million Verdict. A man suffering stroke-like symptoms was misdiagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Despite being sent by his primary care physician for stroke evaluation, he was examined as a low-priority patient with hand numbness. The patient was discharged with a diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome, only to suffer a stroke the next day. A jury awarded him and his wife $1.1 million in damages after a nine-day trial.
- Smith v. GBMC $675,000 Verdict. A 59-year-old GBMC housekeeper was set for routine knee surgery. She suffered a drastic blood pressure spike to 287 over 169 in the recovery room. The immense pressure led to significant brain damage, pushing her brain against her skull and eventually causing her death. GBMC’s defense lawyers argued a rare, undetectable tumor caused the blood pressure surge that killed her. The jury did not buy it.
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If you believe you have a medical malpractice lawsuit against Greater Baltimore Medical Center or any other healthcare provider in Maryland, contact our medical malpractice lawyers at 800-553-8082, or send us a free internet request for consultation.