Medical Center Staff Fired for Spears Snooping
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
HOLLYWOOD - Bosses at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles have fired a dozen employees for snooping in Britney Spears' records.
Hospital officials have suspended another six people after discovering as many as 20 staff members had attempted to defy medical center rules and obtain confidential information about Spears, a recent patient.
The pop star was hospitalized in the facility's psychiatric ward at the beginning of last month.
Those disciplined include physicians, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The security breaches also prompted hospital officials to reveal they had also disciplined and fired staff for looking at Spears' confidential records following the birth of her first son, Sean Preston, in 2005.
UCLA officials reveal that they sent a memo to all staff when Spears was admitted to the hospital, warning employees that snooping through a celebrity patient's records would be considered a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The email read, "Please remember that any unauthorized access by a workforce member will be subject to disciplinary action, which could include termination."
The hospital officials confirm those disciplined include both medical and non-medical employees, but no doctors were targeted for firing.
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