BOCA RATON, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2025) — A Broward County woman is suing West Boca Medical Center and an emergency room physician, saying an August 2024 ER visit ended with her being sent home and a serious vascular condition being missed. Months later, she says, she suffered a stroke.
The case is Sabrina Albert v. West Boca Medical Center, Inc., et al., Case No. 502025CA012952XXXAMB, filed December 12, 2025, in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County.
According to the complaint, Albert went to the emergency department at West Boca Medical Center on August 9, 2024. Three days of headaches. Tingling on the left side of her face. The filing also says she had been dealing with left-sided ear pain and neck pain for months, sometimes with pain running down her left arm. Not new. Not vague, at least as described in the lawsuit.
She was treated in the ER by Dr. Ayesha Hussein, M.D., the complaint states. Albert alleges Dr. Hussein diagnosed her with a headache and discharged her the same day.
That discharge is at the center of the case.
The lawsuit claims Dr. Hussein failed to adequately investigate what was causing the symptoms. Failed to consider vascular injury as part of the differential diagnosis. Failed to order additional diagnostic testing, including a CT angiography of the neck. Because of that, the complaint alleges, a progressing internal carotid artery dissection went undiagnosed.
Those are allegations.
According to the filing, Albert later suffered a cerebrovascular stroke on January 31, 2025. She claims the stroke caused permanent neurological injury and says it was a direct result of what she describes as missed warning signs during the August emergency room visit.
Albert is suing Dr. Hussein for negligence, alleging she owed a duty to provide care consistent with the applicable professional standard and breached that duty. The complaint lists multiple alleged failures, including not obtaining a comprehensive history and physical, not ordering appropriate testing, not diagnosing or treating a carotid artery injury, not properly documenting care, and discharging her without ruling out a dangerous medical condition.
The lawsuit also names West Boca Medical Center, Inc., Inphynet South Broward, LLC, and Paragon Contracting Services, LLC as defendants.
According to the complaint, Dr. Hussein was an employee, agent, or apparent agent of all three entities while Albert was a patient at West Boca Medical Center. The lawsuit seeks to hold each entity vicariously liable for her alleged acts or omissions.
Against the hospital, the complaint alleges both actual and apparent agency. Albert claims she did not have a prior doctor-patient relationship with Dr. Hussein and that the hospital assigned Dr. Hussein as her attending emergency physician. The filing alleges the hospital’s actions and policies created the appearance that Dr. Hussein was part of its staff, and that Albert relied on that appearance when she consented to treatment. Similar agency claims are made against the two staffing entities.
The lawsuit states that damages exceed $50,000, exclusive of interest, costs, and attorneys’ fees. Albert is seeking compensatory damages for alleged past and future medical expenses, pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, lost wages, and loss of earning capacity. She has demanded a jury trial.
Albert is represented by Freedland Harwin Valori Gander Spillis, PL, of Fort Lauderdale. The complaint is signed by attorneys Melissa Gunion and Peter Spillis.
No responses from the defendants are included in the filing, and no findings have been made. The allegations remain unproven.
The original document, as filed with the Palm Beach County Clerk of Court, can be viewed here.
