Re: A case of HIPAA VIOLATION, but by the client's attorney

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What, pray tell, do blank checks have to do with HIPAA?

On 3/24/07, Ms. Reecey wrote:
> In every case that my supervisor was unable to find a client file,
> telephone number, or anything pertaining to some form of office
> work it was always, someone else fault that she could not find it,
> someone else was “stupid or dumb”, or someone “screwed” her. She
> would have files and would have no idea where they were. She never
> took responsibility for actions or as the owner of her company.
> Once she was looking some of her clients personal files, she said
> that she hoped they were not in her boyfriend‘s truck on their way
> with him to where he was moving out of state. My supervisor has
> very confidential information just tossed every where and none
> under lock and key. My supervisor’s client personal filing system
> consisted of ; files in the downstairs bathroom closet (the closet
> is in the bathroom so that when you close the door you have full
> unlimited/unlimited access to sit in there and look at what ever
> you want), under the back desk in boxes on the 1st floor, in her
> car, the trunk of her car, the trunk of her boyfriend’s car, in
> the closet on the 2nd floor, in various desk drawers throughout
> the office, and on the table in the conference room. My supervisor
> did not try to keep her clients confidential information
> confidential. She left client files that contained personal heath
> information, financial information, Will, Trust, Estate Plans,
> Social Security Number, family members health information, Death
> Certificates, and clients blank checks just laying around the
> office unattended. In the case of CLIENT XXX, my supervisor asked
> the administrative assistant, her former administrative assistant,
> to go the bank and get blank checks for CLIENT XXX account. the
> administrative assistant brought the blank checks back to the
> office and gave them to my supervisor. my supervisor placed the
> blank checks on the credenza in the common area in the office and
> later was unable to find them and a day or so later she had to go
> and get more blank checks only after she called the administrative
> assistant a liar as accused her of never getting the checks. She
> often left confidential information on the front desk in an
> unattended by the front door to the office during the day. The
> office is an old house in what has been turned into a business
> district, right off a very busy major street.
>
> If this is a HIPPA violation please tell me what I would need to
> do to report this.