Executive Committee Presentation
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PFCH Email Record From: Vertie Matza <[email protected]> To: Fredric Adair; Eleanore Thacker; Caterina Hossack Date: April 25 Subject: Unauthorized disclosure of patient information As you know, Hayden Samual Barrett, II, the esteemed governor of our state has been in our hospital for surgery and is still an inpatient. As we discussed prior to admission, he wanted the admission to remain private in light of controversial politics issues currently in the media. Prior to admission, I assured him that no one would know of the admission unless he desired them to know. However, last night the evening news on channels 4, 6, and 10 ran the story of the governor’s admission to our hospital. I have been in contact with the news stations and they will honor the governor’s request and not run further stories about his admission. However, the information has already been leaked in last night’s story. The media obviously can’t tell me their source, but did indicate it was an employee of the facility. We will need to investigate internally to see if we can determine the source of the leak of the information.
Vertie Matza, Director – Public Relations
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PFCH Email Record From: Aurore Malasky <[email protected]> To: Fredric Adair CC: Eleanore Thacker; Caterina Hossack Date: May 1 Subject: Electronic Medical Records Access Per your request, I have reviewed the logs on access to patient information for patient Barrett, Hayden S. The data logs indicate that the following employees accessed the patient file in question:
• Teressa Ashley • Bennie Bellamy • Darwin Castello • Cristi Coffin • Josue Connors • Delma Flora • Tyron Glasgow • Joan Hudspeth • Darnell Mares • Chloe Rafey • Dawn Sage • Nila Wiseman
Aurore Malasky, Network Administrator
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PATTON – FULLER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL From: Eleanore Thacker, Dir. of Nursing (Medical/Surgical) To: Fredric Adair, Chief Compliance Officer; Caterina Hossack, Chief Nursing
Officer cc: Nadene Saetteurn, Chief Human Resources Officer Date: May 15 Re: Unauthorized access of medical records – Barrett, Hayden Samual In response to your email on the first of this month, I have reviewed patient care files to determine which employees needed access to the patient file information of Hayden Samual Barrett, II in order to provide clinical care. The following employees were authorized under HIPAA to view the file information in order to provide patient care.
• Darwin Castello • Delma Flora • Tyron Glasgow • Chloe Rafey
Further, in reviewing training files, it appears that all employees providing clinical care have received training on HIPAA within the year. The only employee on your list who did not receive training was Dawn Sage.
PFCH Email Record From: Nadene Saetteurn <[email protected]> To: Fredric Adair Subject: Unauthorized release of medical information - Governor In light of the recent public release of information about the governors stay in our hospital, I have interviewed all employees listed on the May 1, memo. In these interviews Bennie Bellamy has disclosed that he contacted the media and disclosed that the Governor was staying in our hospital. It will fall on the nursing department to follow-up with the employee for his violation of the HIPAA privacy law. If you need any assistance with this follow-up please let me know.
Nadene Saetteurn, Chief Human Resources Officer
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