Fifteen hospital workers were fired from their jobs at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center after secretly peering at Nadya Suleman’s medical records.
Eight other employees were “significantly” reprimanded.
The hospital’s spokesman, Jim Anderson, said Monday, “Despite the notoriety of this case, to us this person is a patient who deserves the privacy that all our patients get.” He added that he doesn’t believe any information was leaked by the workers.
Hospital employees were reminded of confidentiality laws before Suleman arrived to deliver her eight babies in January.
Octomom’s lawyer, Jeff Czech, says his client won’t be filing charges.
He believes the hospital employees were looking for information about the sperm donor but says that none of that information is listed in her medical records and is being kept perfectly safe. He stated, “She trusts Kaiser and they said they’d look into it. We feel that they’re on top of it and are taking care of it.”
[NYDN]
