Privacy Complaint Filed With VA
William R. Levesque
St. Petersburg Times
Jan 07, 2008
January 3, 2008 - A political opponent of U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite has filed a complaint saying that patient confidentiality was breached during an inquiry into the practice of unlicensed psychology at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center.
Jim King said he filed the complaint with a Department of Veterans Affairs "privacy officer" at Haley on Monday. King said he believed staffers for the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations improperly viewed treatment records at Haley without permission from patients.
Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, held a forum at Haley on Dec. 28 to investigate allegations that a group of unlicensed psychologists at the hospital are not adequately supervised. Haley denies the charge.
In preparation for the forum, King said, a staff member of the subcommittee made it clear he had reviewed patient records. Haley's chief of staff said at the forum those records proved unlicensed psychologists are adequately supervised.
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