[Dataloss] dumpster diving in Folkston GA

[Henry Brown]

from Redorbit.com

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FOLKSTON - Residents combing through trash left at a closed physicians' 
office under renovation found a box of medical records this week.

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State laws lay out clear guidelines for safeguarding medical records and 
notifying patients if physicians close their practices, officials said.

The records were apparently left in the office when physicians closed 
their practices there several years ago.

 The unidentified woman who discovered the records turned them over to 
Capt. Kenny Jones, a deputy with the Charlton County Sheriff's Office, 
on Tuesday.

Jones said several doctors had offices in the building in the past and 
he didn't look at the records to determine whose office they came from. 
He delivered them to Charlton Memorial Hospital and asked officials 
there to determine what should be done with them.

Interim hospital administrator Dee McKrow, said the 3-foot- square 
cardboard box was "heaping full" of records.

"We were asked to hold these records, even though they have nothing to 
do with the hospital," she said.

McKrow said she plans to look at the records in the coming days and 
consult with other hospital administrators to determine what to do with 
them.

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