Hep c isn’t an airborn virus like Covid and not likely to spread in a hospital. The legal risk for the hospital is a result of the health risk. If there was no health risk there really isn’t much room for a negligence lawsuit. The hospital would be at legal risk if they did something negligent like allowing someone at high risk of having Covid riding elevators and walking by other patients rooms full of vulnerable patients many old or immunocompromised. I don’t think there is much chance of a lawsuit for emotion damage either because the hospital was taking reasonable precautions. It is more likely they caved to just get op to stop consuming their time with complaining