Patient conditions are available to the media from the Community Relations Department only when the requestor presents the patient’s first and last names. Community Relations can release a patient’s name, age, a one-word condition if determined and whether the patient has been admitted for care, treated and released or transferred to another hospital.
No information about a patient’s location within the hospital, such as the Emergency Department, Trauma Neuro Unit or Mental Health Unit, will be released.
No attempt will be made by hospital personnel to describe the event that caused the injury. This must come from the authorities investigating the event.
In cases involving the Emergency Department or patient condition requests involving an inpatient, when Community Relations staff may not be available, the supervising nurse is authorized to release information. A member of Community Relations is on call at all times and should be contacted when non-routine accident cases occur.