If there is a court document requesting the entire record I release it. Otherwise I would not release an entire record without the employee consent.
From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net]
On Behalf Of Kanchan Dibert
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 2:40 PM
To: mcoh-eh@mylist.net
Subject: [MCOH-EH] Releasing the Entire Employee Health Chart
I'm in a private 400 bed community hospital in North Carolina. We routinely send information from the Employee Health chart for regulatory
review, such as when OSHA, the Joint Commission or the NC Department of Health is on site. We send only specific information from the chart, such as vaccinations, TST's FIT tests pr Hep B immunity.
The hospital's "compliance" and "legal" departments are asking Employee Health Services to release the entire chart to them prior
to these reviews. Does anyone do this, or release the entire employee health chart to any other departments owned by the hospital, or is it standard to release only information that's asked for to your own hospital's legal/compliance departments?
I would appreciate any input since I'm having trouble finding this specific information.
Thanks!
Kanchan P. Dibert MD
Medical Director, CaroMont Occupational Medicine and Employee Health
2555 Court Drive, Suite 120
Gastonia, NC 28054
Phone: 704.834.3070
Fax: 704.834. 3073
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