Apparently the nurse that had to go to Greenville for care had been written up. (Despite being granted non-FMLA leave for the time she was off work.) Looks like a violation of HIPAA. (See follow-up comment.) They compromised HIPAA protected information: patient lists. The use was obviously not for healthcare, and the most direct way would have been through the ER treatment log for that weekend.
It should be a fine for the hospital, the the assistant to the director of nursing that authorized/utilized it, and possibly damages as well.
From her comments, she knew that there would be follow-up by administration, but I hate that they were able to punish the exercise of free speech. What would Hud's son's take be on that: Suppression by his father's corporation of the very rights that he had sworn to uphold and defend?
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