Employee Violates Hipaa
employee violates hipaa
Is there statute of limitations for filing Hipaa violations?
My mom works in a local hospital where we live. On december 3rd she became ill at work with diarrhea, she was sick on the 4th. She then was off work for 4 days during that time she went to the emergency room and they ran some tests, gave her something to stop the diarrhea. On the 9th she called work to talk to the supervisor about something and was told by the supervisor that she had to talk to the Infection control nurse. That nurse told her she had some kind of bacteria and that she was infectious and could not return to work till she went to see her family doctor and get a clean bill of health.The same day she received a letter from the health department telling her the same thing.
My question is shouldn’t the emergency room been responsible for telling her and not her supervisor(employer) since she was a patient at the time and not an employee??? And also since it happened back in December is it too late to file a complaint about being violated??
It is not too late to file a complaint, however, she may not have a case. Since the health department was involved, it was a reportable infection. In a hospital setting, all reportable infections are reported to the infection control nurse, and in the case of an employee, to the direct supervisor. This is so the direct supervisor knows not to allow a person to return to work. Many dishonest people would try to come to work anyway, so the supervisor needs to be told that an individual can not work until cleared by a doctor, to protect the patients whom that individual may come in contact with.
If the trip to the ER didn’t involve a reportable infection and the supervisor had been involved, if it was a supervisor that was not her supervisor, or if it was some other employee who approached her, then she would have grounds for a case against a HIPAA violation.
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