Sixteen fired at Houston Hospital over alleged patient’s privacy violations
Submitted by Steve Meltzer on November 25, 2009 – 6:57 amComments
HOUSTON (KTRK) — Eyewitness News has learned that 16 employees of the Harris County Hospital District – most of whom worked at Ben Taub General Hospital – were fired last week for allegedly looking through patients’ confidential medical information.
The fired employees range from supervisors to assistants. A source tells Eyewitness News some of the information accessed is that of a Ben Taub doctor who was robbed and shot late last month.
This is something the Hospital District didn’t want to talk about, but after pushing for answers, we finally got some. The sixteen people were paid to protect your privacy, but according to hospital officials, they did just the opposite.
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