A Clark County woman has filed a lawsuit against PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver that alleges medical negligence at the hospital led to her husband’s death.

Portland attorney George McCoy filed the wrongful death lawsuit Sept. 18 in Clark County Superior Court on behalf of Stephanie Boydell. It claims PeaceHealth failed to provide reasonable care and treatment to her husband, Logan Boydell, which directly led to his death Sept. 22, 2022.

Logan Boydell’s cause of death was hemopericardium, ruptured aortic aneurysm with extensive dissection and coronary artery atherosclerosis, according to the lawsuit. A ruptured aortic aneurysm with extensive dissection is caused by a tear in the aorta that leads to massive internal bleeding and blood flow between the layers of the aort

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