Ottawa Hospital Fires Employee for Comments about Duffy’s Treatment

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The Ottawa Hospital has announced to have fired one of its employee for publicly disclosing information about its patient, namely suspended senator Mike Duffy, and their medical treatment at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. The eight-year hospital employee who supervised a cleaning crew, Mike Crowder, was earlier placed on administrative leave on July 18 and has now been fired for breaching the hospital’s rules on patient privacy.

It was explained that Mr. Corweder revealed the said information in a Facebook comment on July 17 on an Ottawa Citizen story about the RCMP laying 31 charges against the former Conservative senator. Crowder mentioned that “when Duffy was a patient at UOHI last year, he was nothing short of being pompous and arrogant with my staff.” Additionally, Crowder referred to a former NHL player who has been treated for a terminal heart condition in Ottawa, Odjick, and said that he was “quite a 360 from the other person whose hand I shook yesterday — Gino Odjick — now there’s an inspiration.”

The hospital mentioned that even though the post did not reveal any specific medical information about Duffy or Odjick, it still violates the hospital’s privacy policy for a staff member to acknowledge someone had been treated there without their consent. According to Crowder’s paralegal, Gregg Foss, his client did not revealed any personal information about Duffy since it was well-known through media reports that the he was receiving treatment for heart problems at the institute.

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