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You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, we were at Petco yesterday. Everything is up and running. It's all good.
That's disappointing. They are now saying that Petco may also be closed Sunday and Monday too.We were lucky and got in between two delayed shipments. So far no side effects.
I wouldn't say the credentials were forged, per say. Bus Drivers deal with a bus full of children and are the sole caretaker for the kids' journey from 'home' to school: if a medical emergency arises the drivers have to do what they have to do. In CA School Bus Drivers are required, by legal statute, to pass a CHP first aid exam or take an American Red Cross or EMSA-approved training course. In our district many students riding a bus are special needs, and those are the students who are currently attending K-12 school in-person.I mainly only brought that situation merely to point out that there is no arduous 'healthcare employee' check being done for current vaccinations so I doubt there will be an arduous medical history check for the next phase. I've heard stories of plenty of people getting vaccinations not in the current tier for one reason or another (some I know personally literally were able to get vaccinated because the person administering didn't care and never checked credentials; similarly some people who may have gotten a vaccine in a situation like they were accompanying their elder parents whom they live with were shown a hard "no" due to current regulations).
I'm glad you were able to get in! Hopefully my dad will get in next week, fingers crossed.
There's another website that I found that seems to list vaccination sites: You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginIt seems to have listings of different local sites in each CA county and the links on how to sign up for each site.
Another study came out yesterday that shows that covid can have effects even if you initially have no symptoms. Almost a third of all people that catch covid suffer at least one symptom for at least 3 months. There's no difference between people that had mild symptoms versus people that were hospitalized. Many people that were one of the lucky ones that initially had covid without any symptoms developed symptoms weeks or months later. These long term symptoms can be ongoing. The study cites up to 9 months duration since that's as long as they tracked people for the study but some people are going on 11 months with covid symptoms.A study a few months ago out of the UK showed that 30% of all hospitalized people that recovered from covid were re-hospitalized within 5 months. 12% subsequently died.We tend to think of covid in terms of two binary events. Infected or not, recovered or not. But it's more complicated than that. It's not like the cold or flu where once it's over it's over. Covid can stick with you long after you've "recovered". It's unknown if vaccinations will help with this. Until it is, even after I'm vaccinated, I'll still take the same precautions I am now.
By working at an HIPAA covered entity, then those people are authorized. As part of employment, paid or volunteer, they should have to agree to be bound by HIPAA if they have access to any PHI. Many facilities will require everyone, even those who don't and never will have access to any PHI, to sign that they agree to be bound by the HIPAA privacy rules. The same as at any health care facility like a doctor's office or a hospital.When I said I had to agree to HIPAA when getting a flu shot, I didn't mean by providing my medical history to them. Anyone can ask for anyone's health history. I meant I had to acknowledge that they are allowed to share my health history with other people involved in my care just like with any health provider. Be that my PCP, the insurance company or the government. Signing that acknowledgement/waiver is standard practice in health care.The check in people should not be the ones making the call, it should be part of the registration process. The check in people should only know if someone is a go or no go. By the way, those check in people are also bound by HIPAA if that facility is a covered entity. Since the mere fact that someone is getting a vaccination alone is PHI. So if the concern is about potential HIPAA violations, then that concern has always been there regardless if the facility is a vaccination site, doctor's office, hospital or pharmacy.
The compliance is really bound by lawsuits or HIPAA complaints and employees would only be punished theoretically by loss of employment. So none of this really fits temporary paid or volunteer workers. You can't really enforce HIPAA rules on temporary workers.
Yes you can. Use the same method as with any confidential information. Have the workers sign a NDA. Confidentiality agreements are common for employment be that temporary or permanent and in volunteering. That not only protects a company's IP but also the PI of their clients. Such as the PHI of patients in a health care setting.
To me, it just seems too messy. How do you force volunteers to sign a NDA? Also, a NDA is not the same as a HIPAA form. Again, employees and volunteers don't sign HIPAA forms. It's the patients who sign HIPAA forms-- these are informed consent forms telling them what their medical privacy rights are. Employees and volunteers can undergo HIPAA training but there are no forms for them to sign.
It's just way easier to have each person with a pre-existing condition that qualifies for them for vaccinations in the current phase/tier to have their primary care doctor sign a form that confirms that they qualify and they bring the form to the vaccination sites.. Simple and easy. No way of violating HIPAA.
Petco site down today again; WILL be open tomorrow. 1800 appointments behind; as of late this morning the county is still waiting for COVID-19 vaccine shipments that have been delayed by winter storms. Here's the lates from the Trib: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login