Vanderbilt Hospital Under Civil Rights Investigation Over Releasing Transgender Patient Records To Tennessee AG

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The hospital is now under federal investigation for complying with a Republican attorney general’s request to turn over records.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is under investigation from the Department of Health and Human Services after it provided medical records of patients to Tennessee’s Republican attorney general, the hospital told—the latest escalation in a saga that has placed the hospital into the middle of the state’s culture war over transgender health care....

Additionally, the medical records of state workers, the adult children and spouses of state workers and patients of the state’s Medicaid program TennCare—some of whom weren’t patients at transgender clinic—were also shared,It also comes two weeks after the hospital was sued by two of those 100 patients who allege that VUMC should have removed any personally identifying information from the records before they were turned over, especially because it knew Tennessee officials were hostile toward...

 

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