From the left is John Beal, CLC at Cookeville Regional; Tina Tolliver, Corporate Compliance and Privacy Officer at Cookeville Regional; Becky Robertson, Privacy Auditor Specialist at Cookeville Regional; and Paul Korth, CEO at Cookeville Regional.
Cookeville Regional’s commitment to patient privacy and compliance crucial to growing trust with patients and providing the best care possible
Cookeville, Tenn. – Cookeville Regional Medical Center is pleased to announce that it has become a FairWarning® Ready Certified Care Provider at the Professional Achievement Level, demonstrating its dedication to patient privacy. As part of this certification, Cookeville Regional will be displaying the FairWarning® Ready Certification Shield in its facilities.
Cookeville Regional is taking cutting-edge measures to ensure sensitive patient information is protected at all times, and patient privacy monitoring is one of the essentials. In order to receive the best care possible, a growing number of physicians, clinicians, administrators, and affiliates must have access to patient information, and while the vast majority of those involved in care use sound judgment, from time-to-time, a care worker may mistakenly or purposefully access patient information that isn’t necessary. FairWarning®’s patient privacy monitoring solutions provide Cookeville Regional with the ability to detect these anomalies, train staff and prevent future occurrences. Patient privacy monitoring is also essential to HIPAA, other federal and state law compliance.
“We take patient privacy very serious at our medical center, and want to always ensure our patient’s trust while they are here and when they leave our facility. Cookeville Regional is honored to earn this certification,” said Paul Korth, CEO of Cookeville Regional.
The importance of protecting patient information is a top priority at Cookeville Regional. As studies have shown, when patients trust their care providers’ ability to keep their information secure, they have the confidence to share sensitive information with their care providers. In earning patient trust, Cookeville Regional is ensuring the highest levels of care and reinforcing their patients’ choices of care providers.
The FairWarning® Ready Certification Shield will be displayed in Cookeville Regional’s main lobby area as a symbol of its leadership in, and dedication to, patient privacy.
Cookeville Regional has a corporate compliance officer who is always available to discuss or address in privacy or compliance issue one may have. To learn more about privacy practices at Cookeville Regional visit http://www.crmchealth.org/about-crmc/privacy-practices.
About Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Cookeville Regional Medical Center is a 247-bed regional referral center for the Upper Cumberland area. In addition, Cookeville Regional houses a 32-bed behavioral health hospital in partnership with Ten Broeck Tennessee. With over 200 physicians in 40 different medical and surgical specialties, Cookeville Regional offers patients here the same kind of care that they could expect in a larger metropolitan area including specialty care such as cardiology, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, cancer treatment, physical rehabilitation and neurosurgery. Serving the Upper Cumberland since 1950, Cookeville Regional has grown to become the health care provider of choice for residents in the Upper Cumberland region and is the flagship hospital for the Cookeville Regional Health System that also includes Cumberland River Hospital and Cookeville Regional Medical Group.
About FairWarning®
FairWarning® is the inventor and global leader in patient privacy monitoring solutions for electronic health records, the company’s solutions protect patients in over 1,000 hospitals and 4,000 clinics across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. For more information on FairWarning®, visit http://www.FairWarning.com or email [email protected].