Friday, December 16, 2011
In May, Allina fired 28 worker at Fridley's Unity Hospital for data breach.
A computer glitch at Allina Hospitals and Clinics sent an email message with basic info on eight patients to 250,000 others, KSTP-TV reported Friday. The message contained email addresses for the eight. That was enough to reveal (or suggest) their names, place of work and status as patients (see emails here). It happened, the report said, after the eight email accounts bounced the original message back to Allina's computer, which then re-sent the message with their email addresses included to the original 250,000 recipients. "We're no longer sending mass emails until we figure this out," an Allina spokesman told KSTP. May Breach, Firings The incident comes seven months after Allina fired 28 employees at Unity Hospital in Fridley and four …
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Unity Hospital
550 Osborne Rd NE, Minneapolis, MN
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Young patients stand to suffer in community standing from data breach, the editorial noted.
The 32 workers Allina fired on May 6 for peeking at patients' electronic medical records—including 28 at Unity Hospital—deserved to lose their jobs, says the Star Tribune in an editorial column published Saturday: Allina's move was swift and appropriately harsh—especially given that these staffers had undergone training and were well-aware that they were violating the nation's health privacy law. Allina said all 32 had no valid patient-care reason to look at the records, which related to a March 17 mass-overdose in Blaine. A 19-year-old man died at Unity Hospital after overdosing on a drug, 2C-E, that sent almost a dozen others to hospitals from the party. A 21-year-old man faces a third-degree murder charge in the case. The Star Tribune'…
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Unity Hospital
550 Osborne Rd NE, Minneapolis, MN
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Allina also fired four others at Mercy Hospital.
Twenty-eight employees lost their jobs at Unity Hospital in Fridley Thursday for looking at patient data related to a recent mass-overdose incident. Allina Hospitals and Clinics also fired four workers at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids for violating a policy that bars employees from accessing electronic patient records without a legitimate patient-care reason. According to spokesman David Kanihan, all 32 employees had accessed records from the March 17 mass-overdose at a Blaine house party that left one man dead and another charged with murder. The employees accessed the patient data shortly after the overdose incident, Kanihan said. Allina "has no reason to believe" that the employees did so for any reason other than to satisfy their own …
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Unity Hospital
550 Osborne Rd NE, Minneapolis, MN
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Fridley’s weekly events guide has five ways to punctuate your weekend.
It’s Thursday, so tomorrow must be Friday—time to stop going through the motions and live a little. Fridley Patch has just the answer. Boogie Wonderland When: Friday, April 1, at approximately 9 p.m. Where: GB Leighton’s Pickle Park Why Go: Live Music. The movie wasn’t too shabby so by law, neither can the band. Free & Easy When: Friday, April 1, 9 p.m.–1 a.m. Where: Shorewood Bar & Grill Why Go: Only a fool would pass up live music from an 8 member band ensemble featuring horns, vocals and a potentially infectious dance groove. Fridley Fire Department Auxiliary Spaghetti Dinner When: Saturday, April 2, 4–7 p.m. Where: Fridley Municipal Center (Fire Station 1) Why Go: Help support your local fire fighters so they can better support you. …
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GB Leighton's Pickle Park
7820 University Ave NE, Fridley, MN
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Fridley Municipal Center
6431 University Ave NE, Fridley, MN
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Shorewood Bar & Grill
6161 Highway 65 NE, Minneapolis, MN
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7025 Northland Dr N, Brooklyn Park, MN
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St Philip's Lutheran Church
6180 Highway 65 NE, Fridley, MN
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The criminal complaint alleges that Timothy Richard Lamere supplied the drug that led to the death of Trevor Vance Robinson-Davis at Unity Hospital.
The Anoka County Attorney's Office has charged Timothy Richard Lamere, 21, of Blaine, with third-degree murder in the March 17 drug-overdose death of Trevor Vance Robinson-Davis (see PDF). Robinson-Davis, who turned 19 four days earlier, died at Unity Hospital in Fridley at 2 p.m., about 14 hours after Blaine police responded to a 911 call from a house party in the 9500 block of Monroe Street NE. By the time police arrived, people from the party had already taken Robinson-Davis to Unity Hospital, about 2.5 miles south. A Fridley police officer gave Robinson-Davis CPR at the hospital, according to Capt. Bob Rewitzer: On March 17th at 00:49 one of our officers responded to Unity Hospital, 550 Osborne Road NE, on report that a person that …
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Unity Hospital
550 Osborne Rd NE, Minneapolis, MN
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Massage and acupuncture at Virginia Piper Cancer Institute-Unity Hospital are available to all.
In the span of a year, the former Fridley Medical Center on Osborne Road has been reduced to surface parking for Unity Hospital next door—and a new medical center has risen nearby to replace it. The new two-story, $14 million Fridley Medical Center opened last month and houses Multicare Associates, a clinic owned by its health care providers which also has locations in Blaine and Roseville. "This was going to be built on the Columbia Arena site [south on University Avenue]," said Fridley Community Development Director Scott Hickok. But that 2009 plan, for a smaller, 50,000 square-foot building, died when a co-developer backed out. The Unity Hospital campus site attracted more businesses interested in moving in. Multicare is just one of …
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Chris Steller
3:24 am on Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thanks for the comment, s. To quote the March 21 criminal complaint attached to the March 22 Fridley Patch article that is linked above: "The substance found in the bottle from the defendant's pocket was tested by the Minnesota BCA. The substance was determined to be 8.9 grams of "2C-E" rather than the believed "2C-I." I am sorry for the error and will make the correction to this post. more ›