{"id":304475,"date":"2025-11-21T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304475\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:00:07","slug":"ombudsman-reports-on-patient-privacy-in-the-villages-health-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304475\/","title":{"rendered":"Ombudsman reports on patient privacy in The Villages Health transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">An ombudsman has filed a report on the status of patient privacy in the transition of the ownership of The Villages Health to Humana\u2019s CenterWell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Suzanne Richards, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/2025\/08\/06\/ombudsman-ordered-to-monitor-patient-care-in-wake-of-villages-health-bankruptcy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">serving as the ombudsman for patients<\/a>, conducted a review to ensure that that the patients\u2019 privacy is being protected. She previously visited the health care centers in The Villages and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/2025\/10\/02\/ombudsman-reports-on-post-bankruptcy-status-of-care-at-the-villages-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> issued a report on the status of patient care.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/2025\/07\/04\/the-villages-health-seeks-bankruptcy-after-erroneous-medicare-billing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Villages Health announced its bankruptcy<\/a> after the discovery of a mysterious $360 million \u201cMedicare coding error.\u201d It was since sold to Humana for $68 million. The Villages Health clinic will be rebranded under the CenterWell logo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In her review, the ombudsman found that The Villages Health had \u201crobust\u201d protections for cybersecurity and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act\u00a0(HIPAA.) She found that CenterWell has equally strong programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Computers at the facilities are password protected and very little patient information is printed out. The information that is printed out, is appropriately shredded.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>Comments have been temporarily disabled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ombudsman has filed a report on the status of patient privacy in the transition of the ownership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,148963],"class_list":["post-304475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-the-villages-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}