‘Wall of Shame’ used private records to mock disabled patients.

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Using confidential medical records, her new co-workers at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine

The same outfit running the kiddie fiddler church (Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center is a hospital at 93 Campus Avenue in Lewiston, Maine adjacent to Bates College. It is part of a complex of care facilities now operated by Covenant Health Systems, a Roman Catholic non-profit organization)


According to the commission’s report, McCann went to hospital administrators in the fall of 2016, mentioning both her suspicion that her colleagues had been digging into her private medical files and her concerns about the Wall of Shame. But higher-ups were slow to take action. Though the hospital claimed the offensive collage was dealt with in a “matter of weeks,” McCann had photographic evidence to the contrary, showing that it was still in place in December 2016, several months after she first complained.

Meanwhile, the hospital’s IT department conducted its own investigation and confirmed that three of McCann’s colleagues had been snooping in her medical records. One of the technicians was fired, and two others were disciplined. But that made matters even worse, McCann said in her complaint, because her remaining co-workers blamed her and began talking behind her back. She quit her job in January 2017, citing “the hostile work environment and the numerous HIPAA violations that I have repeatedly reported,” and filed a complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission the next month.

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