I would not release without employee’s permission.

Deborah A. Sampson, PhD, APRN, COHN-S, FAANP

Director

Employee Health and Wellness Services

Southern New Hampshire Health P.O.Box 2014 8 Prospect Street Nashua, NH 03060

p(603) 281-8583 f (603) 577-5665

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

kanchan.dibert@caromonthealth.org

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