Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being sued by its transgender clinic patients, who accuse the hospital of violating their privacy by turning their records over to Tennessee's attorney general.
FILE - Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., is pictured on July 16, 2013. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is facing a class action lawsuit for turning over the medical records of its transgender clinic patients to the Tennessee attorney general's office for an ongoing investigation.
“Against that backdrop, its failure to safeguard the privacy of its patients is particularly egregious,” the lawsuit says. Many of the patients involved are state workers, or their adult children or spouses; others are on TennCare, the state’s Medicaid plan; and some were not even patients at the transgender clinic, according to the lawsuit. It says that records for more than 100 current and former patients were sent without redacting their identities.
The hospital waited months before telling patients their medical information was shared, acting only after the existence of theHowser said that at that point, hospital officials thought patients should hear it from them instead of media reports or other ways.
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