[MCOH-EH] Custodian of Employee Health Records

[Kanchan Dibert]

I'm in employee health and occupational medicine in a 400 bed community hospital in North Carolina. 
"Legal" has requested full access to employee health charts prior to any regulatory survey for any compliance and/or workers' comp related issues. I'm trying to make a decision whether to allow the hospital's legal department to be the custodian of employee health records. Doesn't the hospital own the records and have access to the entire chart?
 
Are there any documents to reference other than the 11/16/2012 ACOEM statement, "Confidentiality of Medical Information in the Workplace"?

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 at caromonthealth.org
caromonthealth.org
 
 

 
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