Health Care & Hospital Law
Jun. 3, 2015
Health care industry struggles with employees' social media use
Though California health care entities saw their share of incidents in recent years, health care compliance attorneys say they are trying to help their clients create social media policies without infringing on employees' rights.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In 2010, Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside fired five nurses for discussing shift
changes on Facebook, even after it found no mention of patient information. The nurses
fired back with an appeal. That same year, St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach
terminated four employees and disciplined another three for posting photos of a dying
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