My 13 year old daughter was admitted to a Mental Health Hospital yesterday. She is on suicide watch every 15 minutes. She threatens to run away from home to go and live with her friend and this friends mom upon discharge. She is forbidden to have anything to with this family because they are wrongly influencing her. Today the nurse told me this friend's mother got a telephone message through to my daughter. I know this is true because the nurse told me. The hospital violated HIPPA because all information is to be strictly confidential. They are not allowed to confirm that my child is an admitted patient and no one should have given her a message from anyone other that myself or her father. When I called the Administrator On Duty to complain she didn't want to talk to me until I said this is a "HIPPA VIOLATION". Then her attitude towards me changed. Should I sue the hospital?
