Records Galore

    Doesn't it make you feel good knowing that if your hospital goes bankrupt, all your medical records will sit in a room like this to be snooped over by anyone who happens to pass by? Really, you'd think they'd come up with a central repository for medical records so that if a hospital went bankrupt, they'd have some place else to send them to.

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    1. astropuff [deleted] (46 months ago | reply)

      Oh
      My
      God.

    2. A11en (44 months ago | reply)

      OMG is right

    3. THE LURKING HAMSTER (43 months ago | reply)

      tech. its breaking and entering if your there to begin with, but i see where your coming from with this, i would have a blast taking photos here!

    4. Comtesse DeSpair (43 months ago | reply)

      Agreed, summer86dream. And obviously they're not planning on preserving these records if they're letting them rot there.

    5. skinnywildernessmed (42 months ago | reply)

      Holy crap...that is SUCH a HIPPA violation on their part...

    6. paraesthesia (40 months ago | reply)

      skinnywildernessmed, i was just gonna say that! HIPAA folk must love this kind of stuff. :\

    7. Doostydusty (28 months ago | reply)

      how did you get into the building i drove past it today there was a security guard there

    8. Rick Aiello (24 months ago | reply)

      In mid-2001 I had my first kidney stone and went to Edgewater's ER. After many hours of tests, they determined that I had a stone (and not appendicitis, like I originally thought). They sent me home with the requisite strainer and the stone came out. They then sent me to a Urologist in the most god-awful building I've ever seen, that looked like it was held over from the 1960s. The office was even worse. I dropped off the stone to be analyzed, and never heard anything back. The hospital closed not too long after that. I wonder if my records are there? LOL

    9. Katy McGrady (16 months ago | reply)

      random late comment, but I think 2001 was pre-HIPPA. All the same, someone really should be assigned as custodian of medical records when a medical facility closes down like this.

    10. skinnywildernessmed (16 months ago | reply)

      Nope, HIPAA was passed in 1996, though an addition relating to electronic records (which barely existed then) was passed in 2009.

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