RIVERSIDE COUNTY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Issue: Based on interview and facility document review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and/or disclosure of Patient A's protected health information (PHI), when copies of Patient A's clinic visit notes were inadvertently mailed to the wrong patient. This failure…

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

Issue: Based on interview and facility document review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and/or disclosure of Patient 1's medical information, when discharge information was inadvertently faxed to the wrong number. This failure had the potential to result in misuse…

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

Issue: Based on interview and facility document review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and/or disclosure of Patient 1 and Patient 2's medical information. A staff member copied portions of their medical record, and kept those copies unprotected. This failure…

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

Issue: Based on interview and facility document review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and/or disclosure of Patient 1's medical information, when a imaging report was inadvertently mailed to a different patient with the same name. This failure had the…

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

Issue: Based on interview and facility document review, the facility failed to prevent unauthorized access and/or disclosure of Patient 1's medical information, when Patient 1's discharge paperwork was given to Patient 2. This failure had the potential to result in misuse…

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 ensure all patient protected health information (PHI) was kept protected, which resulted in the unauthorized access of the patient's confidential information (Patients 1 through 22). Patient 1 through 22's confidential…

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 to a patient's (Patient A) protected health information (PHI) when Patient A's addressograph (a plastic blue card with the patient's information embossed on it) was used to…

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 ensure all patient protected health information (PHI) was kept protected, which resulted in the unauthorized access of the patient's confidential information (Patient 9). Patient 9's confidential information was provided to…

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 to to patient's (Patient A's) when an RN sent an e-mail to administrative staff and her union.Findings:On April 5, 2013, a review of a letter written by…

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 to a patient's medical information when a patient's (Patient A) prescription was given to another patient.Findings:On February 5, 2013, during a physician appointment, Patient A's prescription for…

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