Ashley Health

Ashley County Medical Center investigates former employee accused of violating federal privacy laws

Ashley health center says that “We treat you like family.”

Ashley County Medical Center is a licensed 33-bed Critical Access Hospital located in the town of Crossett in South Arkansas.

Ashley County Medical Center has come a long way from the 1908 hospital built by the Crossett Lumber Company. In February of 1947, the name was changed to Crossett Health Center. That center was located just north of the building which later became known as Ashley Memorial Hospital.

ACMC presently has 6 CCU beds, 6 Labor / Delivery beds, 8 Generation beds, 13 Med-Surg beds, 2 OR Suites, 1 Endoscopy Suite, 6 Day Surgery Suites, and 9 Emergency beds.

and their motto is “We treat you like family.” The citizens of Ashley County voted on a sales tax to build a new hospital in 1998.

Ashley Health, the hospital has served Ashley County for over 100 years. it has 13 staff physicians and approximately 200 employees, who mostly live in Ashley County.

Ashley Medical Center is a community service organization that provides preventative, curative, supportive, and educational health care that meets the physical treatment.

ASHLEY COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER is a hospital & health care company based out of 1015 UNITY ROAD, P.O. BOX 400, CROSSETT, Arkansas, United States.

 Ashley County Medical Center is investigating a former employee they claim inappropriately viewed medical records of 772 patients.

According to a release, ACMC’s policy and procedures revealed that a former employee, who has been identified as a nurse, accessed some patient information for purposes unrelated to care and treatment.

Based on investigations conducted by ACMC, it appears that the limited patient information was only accessed and viewed out of curiosity and not distributed or shared with anyone outside of ACMC.

“Patient privacy is an extremely serious matter and any failure to protect patient information will subject employees to disciplinary actions,” said Phillip Gilmore, Chief Executive Officer, ACMC. “We are continuing to take steps to report the actions of this employee, notify any additional patients whose information was viewed, continuing to diligently monitor and protect patient information, and provide additional education to our staff.”