HIPAA Cited and Investigators Told to Go Away

     In a Daytona Beach, Florida nursing home, an elderly female resident was taken to the hospital by concerned relatives. She was diagnosed with an S.T.D. Elderly female resident, incapable of giving consent due to the nature of her ailments, also did not happen to have a husband or lover living at the nursing home with her. The obvious questions: Was she assaulted sexually? If so, who did it?

     So far, according to an article I found 
http://www.wsbradio.com/news/news/police-daytona-beach-nursing-home-blocks-investiga/ngjN9/
indicates that the police investigators were invited to leave the grounds of the nursing home when sent to investigate this clearly criminal manner. The excuse given was because of H.I.P.A.A., the policy was that neither patients nor workers were to be made available for police interviews.

     Much as we've been sold repeatedly on the idea that the HIPAA crap is for "our" protection as patients, it has become clear to me that HIPAA is for the convenience of medical personnel and for the protection of medical facilities. No love there-- neither to the media nor to the politicians who passed this crap-- at all.

radical sapphoq says: This is one case where HIPAA is being used to protect the organization and not the elderly woman who may have been raped. Absolutely disgusting.