LAPORTE, Ind. — REAL News Michiana has been provided photos and videos showing thousands of patient files simply abandoned at the old LaPorte Hospital in Downtown LaPorte. The files contain social security numbers, birth dates, healthcare information, even pictures of surgeries and naked bodies. In response to our investigation and inquiries into the HIPAA violations, Northwest Health requested RNM destroy the evidence we obtained.
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I used to work there and I know how seriously they took patient privacy – extremely. How this could have happened, all I can guess is that it must have come about in the rush to get moved from the old campus to the new one. This is not the way they always treated patients’ medical info and I’m sure they were horrified to find that this happened. Fact remains that it did.
they must have been in a very big rush to get out to leave files and body parts in the old hospital and there should have been guards there till the property was closed off and then guards should still been there to keep drug uses down great place to hide and do drugs/ drink and have party’s .building was to have been down in 22 here it is 23 and still standing and now this.who is the party at Northwest that was to oversee the files distroyed and what was so important that this was over looked so Consruction workers and vagrants
could find this someone needs to be held accountable