Bereavement Leave Letter Format

Pretend you supervise the correspondence unit of the health information services department of a medical center. Today, you received a subpoena duces tectum from an attorney, demanding either the originals or copies of all health records concerning Mary Smith, who allegedly is or was a patient of the medical center. The subpoena lacks sufficient information for you to determine whether Mary Smith is or was a patient in your facility. The subpoena is not accompanied by a valid authorization to release information for Mary Smith, as required in your state. (Case Study, p. 62)

A patient has just left the office after having an outpatient surgery procedure. As you get ready to put away the patient’s file, you realize that the patient has forgotten to take his prescriptions and after-care instruction sheets home with him. It is vital for proper healing and recovery for the patient to have these documents. You know you will have to contact this patient so you look inside for his contact information and signed HIPAA Release of Information form.

An experienced nurse Julie Thao was taking care of 16-yeas old Jasmine Gant who was about t give a birth. Thao is accused of making a mistake that had terrible and tragic result on the life of a pregnant teenage, unborn child, Gant’s family, health care, and Thao’s life. Thao mistakenly gave Gant an epidural anesthetic intravenously instead of an IV antibiotic for a strep infection. Within minutes of receiving the epidural IV, Gant suffered seizures and died. Her child, a boy, was delivered by emergency Caesarean section and survived. So what caused this tragedy to happen? According to investigation, Thao improperly removed the epidural bag from a locked storage system without authorization, she did not scan the bar code, which would have told

As noted, on February 29, 2016, the patient was nonetheless admitted to the UCR hospitalist. This was a senior member of the UCR hospitalist team who knew or should have known all of the policies and procedures for admission, and should never have admitted the patient as an attending to the hospital. In so doing, he was directly and deliberately interfering with the doctor patient relationship.

Contrary to the alleged, Dr. Brock refuted the claim, defending that he never established a doctor-patient relationship with Anita, which relieves him of liability. In order to validate his refute, Dr. Brock provided four factual elements that were supported by his counterparts; Dr. Whitfield and Dr. Ketcham. The four elements that were presented in the affidavit included: (1) That there has never been a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Brock and Anita Oliver, (2) Dr. Brock has never seen or talked to Anita or Cathy Oliver, (3) Dr. Brock was not employed, engaged or requested to serve as a consultant to treat Anita, (4) and Dr. Brock was not employed or engaged to consult with doctors treating Anita, concerning complaints or medical problems. In order to support Dr. Brock’s refute, Dr. Whitfield and Dr. Ketcham provided affidavit’s as

According to former employee Stephone Else, medication aide, alleges she heard Ms. Lyles tell Phillip Yovonnie, LVN to “Take her to China” with Amara Anele, RN, and Lilian Foster, Medication aide present at 6:20-6:30am. Per the investigation, the date was identified as 1/23/18 and resident was Shirley Depino. According to the nurse Amara, she did not give any medications

At Memorial Day in 2014, you sent me a note that if I donated 25 US dollars, you will give me an American Flag. Also, at Memorial Day in 2016, if I donated 25 US you will gift me one hat (Baseball cap USO logo). But I am very unhappy and upset that I didn’t receive everything you promised.

The information obtained from the interview was different from the information stated on the written document obtained from the HCSS. Also, both Ileana and HCSS claimed that the staffs at the doctor’s office were a witness to the incident. SC called doctor’s office, they confirmed that they saw Ileana and HCSS; however they denied witnessing the situation at the office.

Although, it was a mistake the hospital should feel obligated to inform the patient about the incident. I agree with the physician because it is the duty of a physician to reveal the truth because the patient has trusted her with his privacy. Not only is it morally correct, but as a future nurse to be so far we have learn that patients privacy is very important and people are counting on us as the healthcare profession to take care of them while maintaining their privacy. The first mistake that was done in this scenario is that the secretary should of double checked before sending the document. When faxing sensitive documents the person in charge of faxing should always double check that they have type the correct information. Not only is it important for them to tell the patient but they should also field an incident report. By feeling an incident report this will bring to the attention the situation so that in the future incidents like this one will not

Apparently, the applicant’s attorney saw Dr. Dennis Robertson is on our MPN with the address of 5649 N. Palm Ave, Fresno CA 93704 and concluded that any doctor (i.e., Dr. Mamigonian) who shares this address is within our MPN. This is obviously not true. Doctors share office all the time but that does not mean they are necessarily associated with each other.

The information contained in the medical records is confidential and can only be released to authorized individuals in accordance with state and federal regulations. At Consulate Health Care only authorized persons may have access to clinical records in the permanent record file. Specifically authorized personnel are those involved in resident care, the Executive Director, consultants employed by the Facility, appropriate representatives of survey agencies, and others engaged in research projects who have been approved by the Executive Director. As a health care provider, Beneva Lakes’ primary focus of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, HIPAA, is: Combating against fraud and abuse; Ensuring confidentiality and security of individuals’ information/data; and Mandating uniform standards for electronic data transmissions of patient health information. Sharing Protected Health Information, PHI, is allowed for the purposes of treatment, billing, health care operations, determining eligibility and with patient authorization. Any sharing of PHI not required or allowed by federal of state statute is improper and it must be properly maintained for at least ten years. It is Consulate Health Care’s policy that prior to releasing PHI for promotional purposes, the provider must receive a written authorization that includes the dates it is valid and the ability of the patient to revoke the authorization.

2. In this case, how would you be able to correct your error and provide the missing documents to the patient while still protecting patient confidentiality under HIPAA?

The department of Health and Human Services protects and guides the health and well being of individuals here in America (Thacker, 2014). They fulfill these duties providing Americans with adequate and efficient health and human services and monitoring services designed to increase the efficiency of care in the health system (Thacker, 2014). One of the services being monitored by the department of Health and Human Services is the electronic health record system, which carries private and vital information of patient’s health record enabling all eligible participating health workers access to these records (Thacker, 2014). A breach of the protective health information of patients in a health organization creates chaos as these are against the health insurance portability and accountability (HIPAA) law (Thacker, 2014). Hence, measure will have to be put in place to determine what caused the breach and how to rectify it to ensure the breach never happens again (Thacker, 2014).

In order to adhere to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards of conduct, performance and ethics (2008) all personal details of the patients have been altered or not disclosed in order to keep the patient 's identity confidential and safe, but also to keep the identity of the hospital in which the patient was treated confidential.

I don’t have the courage to face you, this is the reason I am writing a Goodbye letter to you by pouring out my feelings, emotions and thoughts about why I am leaving this relationship.