16 Employees Fired by Texas Hospital District For HIPAA Violations
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16 employees have been fired by the Harris County Hospital District for violating patient privacy laws, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed. Most of the fired employees worked at Ben Taub. They include managers, nurses, clerks and other employees.A county employee who asked not to be identified told the Houston Chronicle that two high-ranking administrators told him the fired employees had looked at the medical records of Dr. Stephanie Wuest, a first-year Baylor College of Medicine resident assigned to Ben Taub General Hospital. Wuest became a patient at Ben Taub on Oct. 29, after she was shot in a grocery store parking lot. She is expected to make a full recovery, her mother said.