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Do the cleaning staff typically know the patirnts’ conditions and other medical details? I suppose they can read the charts on the walls. Is that a hipaa violation? Or maybe they also have some hipaa training / certification.
This would make a good shitmovie premise, like Good Will Hunting meets House, where the best doctor in the hospital is actually a janitor. Maybe he reads patient charts and secretly treats them for the real disease the other doctors haven’t found.
Housekeeping definitely meets patients, and sometimes knows what's going on with them based on seeing them and overhearing conversations. This is especially the case if someone is there an extended time. They are subject to and trained in HIPAA as hospital staff
Most hospitals have areas for different specialties. i.e. the oncologist ward. So even though you dont have details everyone knows the patients there have cancer.
Charts aren't publicity visible, and never have been as long as I've been alive. That's mostly an invention of television, these days they're entirely electronic.
Yes, it's a HIPAA violation, but it's possible this is outside the US.
That of course assumes that a greentext is even remotely true, but it's obviously both fake and gay. (Not that there's anything wrong with that)
Hadn't thought of that! I haven't seen a paper chart and clipboard on a door since forever. Pretty sure that was the thing when I popped a lung in the mid-90s, but certainly not 10-years ago during my last stay.
I don't think they read the charts or anything, but in my experience having a few family members with long hospital stays, usually housekeeping gets an idea of who someone is and their general condition pretty quickly.
Man if I went to the hospital to get cancer treatment in my city, even the damn birds would know I have cancer, the next day.
The patients get admitted to wards based on specialty. Oncology is a specialty. Dying cancer patient is admitted to oncology ward. Simple as.