Judge: Hospital not liable for worker's Facebook post
CINCINNATI (AP) â A judge has found that a Cincinnati hospital is not liable after an employee posted a screenshot of a patient's private medical records on Facebook.
The former University of Cincinnati Medical Center employee posted records in 2013 on a Facebook group with a name that includes a derogatory name for women considered promiscuous. The records listed the woman's diagnosis as "maternal syphilis." She also was pregnant.
The woman sued the hospital, her former boyfriend, and the former employee last year.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge on Monday found that the employee was not acting within the scope of her employment, and that the hospital needs to be dropped from the lawsuit.
