Health Care

Administrative Ethics Paper

HCS/335

06/25/2015

James Dockins

Jasmit Singh

Ethics and mission statements are what shapes the company and direct them on what needs to be delivered to their patient. It is a promise to their clients and patient of safety and confidentiality. While some abide the rules with all their dedication, some take the risk to violate the law. Cedar-Sinai is a hospital in West Hollywood, California. There was an article in Huffington post, 2014 that they fired five workers and a student research assistant for peeping on patient’s private medical records. It is the same hospital Celebrity star Kim Kardashian gave birth to her daughter on June 15th. The records were inappropriately accessed between June 18 and June 24. Four of those fired were employees of community physicians who have staff privileges at the hospital, one was hospital: medical assistant and one was unpaid student research assistant. Three physicians violated hospital policy by giving underlings their hospital log-on, information that was abused to access confidential patient records, according to their hospital. Five of the fired workers looked at one record, and one looked at 14 patient records.

It is very rare at big hospitals to have patient’s privacy being violated by unauthorized people, but this hospital has celebrities as patients. People are willing to risk their job to get information about celebrities so that they can sell it to the media even if It takes jeopardizing their jobs for it. In 2008, then Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law fining health facilities for such violations. The move came after then-Maria Shriver’s records were breached, along with other celebrities at UCLA Medical Center. In the past, Los Angeles hospitals have struggled with protecting celebrity records from the prying eyes of curious staffs and from tabloids that have tried to buy information from those staff.

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