CONTRA COSTA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of 129 patient's protected, confidential health information, when a flash drive was reported as stolen from an office in the facility. This allowed for potential…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of Patient 67's protected, confidential health information, when a form for this patient was provided to another patient to sign. This failure allowed for potential…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of Patient 56's and 57's protected, confidential health information, when the patients' After Visit Summary was given to the opposite patient. This failure allowed for…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of Patient 27's and 28's protected, confidential health information, when the patients' prescriptions were given to the opposite patient. This failure allowed for potential unlawful…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of Patient 13's protected, confidential health information, when the Registration Clerk inadvertently entered the medical record number of a patient with a similar name. The…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of 16 patients' (Patients 1 thru 16) protected, confidential health information when a binder, containing information and identification, was found n the hospital cafeteria. The…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of Patient 61's protected, confidential health information, when the patient's appointment notice was given to another patient. This failure allowed for potential unlawful or unauthorized…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized disclosure of Patient 51's protected, confidential health information, when the patient's personal information was discussed, by a nurse, with another employee who was not authorized to receive the…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of Patient 15's protected, confidential health information, when the Registration Clerk inadvertently placed an identification band containing the patient's personal information on his brother. This…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280

Issue: Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of Patient 55's protected, confidential health information, when a document, an After Visit Summary, was given to the wrong patient. This failure allowed for potential…

Outcome: Deficiency cited by the California Department of Public Health: Health & Safety Code 1280