Tennessee hospital faces civil rights investigation over release of transgender health records

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A Tennessee hospital is facing a federal civil rights investigation after turning the medical records of transgender patients over to the state's attorney general, officials say.

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.

“We have been contacted by and are working with the Office of Civil Rights,” spokesperson John Howser said in a statement late Thursday. “We have no further comment since this is an ongoing investigation.” Many of the patients who had their private medical information shared with Skrmetti's office 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 VUMC's clinic that provides transgender care.

 

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