Olucy
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Family member applied for a job with the City of Portland to drive a city Bus. He went thru several phone and virtual interviews, and tests over the last 2-3 weeks, was offered the job last week, and was scheduled for pre-employment physical today.
He went in for the physical, the physician came into the exam room, said "you were admitted for depression to Unity Center for Behavioral Health for 2 weeks in July. I'm not doing this physical. You can get dressed and go."
Turns out Unity Center states on their website their partners are: Kaiser Permanente, Oregon Health & Science University, Legacy Health, and Adventist Health. More importantly Unity's Community Partners include: City of Portland, City of Portland Fire & Rescue, Multnomah County, Portland Police Bureau, plus about 15 more area Portland Area Organizations.
Apparently since Unity Center for Behavioral Health is connected to the City of Portland the City Bus Dept has access to his medical records which they accessed without asking him and without his consent. The result is the Bus Dept has rescinded the Bus Driver job offer. It also means that the Portland Police Dept Records and the Housing Voucher Audit jobs he applied for, interviewed for, and tested for, are now off the table along with every future City of Portland job opening.
If his medical records were at a non-City connected facility the City Bus Dept, Police Dept, Housing Dept and every other City connected business absolutely would be required to obtain a signed release from him before they could go digging thru any of his medical records.
So the question is: is this legal that they accessed his medical records? So, what recourse does he have?
He went in for the physical, the physician came into the exam room, said "you were admitted for depression to Unity Center for Behavioral Health for 2 weeks in July. I'm not doing this physical. You can get dressed and go."
Turns out Unity Center states on their website their partners are: Kaiser Permanente, Oregon Health & Science University, Legacy Health, and Adventist Health. More importantly Unity's Community Partners include: City of Portland, City of Portland Fire & Rescue, Multnomah County, Portland Police Bureau, plus about 15 more area Portland Area Organizations.
Apparently since Unity Center for Behavioral Health is connected to the City of Portland the City Bus Dept has access to his medical records which they accessed without asking him and without his consent. The result is the Bus Dept has rescinded the Bus Driver job offer. It also means that the Portland Police Dept Records and the Housing Voucher Audit jobs he applied for, interviewed for, and tested for, are now off the table along with every future City of Portland job opening.
If his medical records were at a non-City connected facility the City Bus Dept, Police Dept, Housing Dept and every other City connected business absolutely would be required to obtain a signed release from him before they could go digging thru any of his medical records.
So the question is: is this legal that they accessed his medical records? So, what recourse does he have?