I was recently discharged last month from a medical center and was brought in the
ER for psych reasons. The person who registered me according to the other staff,
called his cousin my former supervisor who notified my manager. I was told by admitting
staff there that during the 24hrs there, the manager kept calling about me. The psych intake person told the manager that due to HIPPA he could not discuss my case. Since my manager just fired me, I doubt she was concerned about my well being. I will check my
medical records to see if my name was mentioned by my former manager and former
co-workers to see if there is a HIPPA violation. What say you please? Thank you

Fr_Chuck

Were you sent to psych by the work place.

david Borman

no because of depression,I was brought in by police for a suicide watch. They talk HIPPA
big time in meetings but everyone knows in a hospital, confidentiality
is considered a joke. But with the manager being so inquisitive one would think, she should
quash any semblance of an confidentiality breeches,IMO. BTW,besides HIPPA issues and high
infection rates,nurse/staff error,one should keep their stay out of hospitals as short as possible.

JudyKayTee

It's HIPAA, not HIPPA.

HIPAA fines the people who released the info illegally. You do not collect due to a breach.

If you were fired solely because of this episode, no other problems in the workplace, you were not a danger to other employees or yourself at the work place, then you could look into a discrimination lawsuit. If that is the only reason you were terminated, then I would consult with an employment Attorney. You could ask about HIPAA at that time and take whatever proof you have with you.

david Borman

thanks for correcting me..former hospital employee should know how to spell Hippa..
maybe thats why they canned me LOL.
No a er registration clerk after I was discharged and brought into ER my name was
brandished about openly, that's why my manager was constantly calling about me.
This thing goes on all the time as anyone who works in a hospital know. Privacy is joke.
Unless something was documented, patients are screwed as far a confidentiality.
Tough to enforce IMO

JudyKayTee

It must depend on the hospital - my husband was hospitalized many, many times, was known in the medical community and we never had one single problem. No information was ever given out and the hospital didn't even acknowledge he was a patient. When discussing him they referred to him as Mr. "his first name," never used his last name, called me Mrs. "his first name."

I didn't realize that was out of the ordinary and honestly thought that this is how hospitals function.