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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After reading the OPs incredibly LONG updated response to her own post:

1. OP for transparency your incredibly lengthy updated response should have started with "UPDATE: I WAS WRONG, I SIGNED A CONSENT FORM TO SHARE MY KIDS INFO. I DID NOT READ IT. MY MISTAKE." The accountability you seek of others should start with yourself.

2. OP, this entire thread is a prime example of why administrators and school staff are overwhelmed by parents with an emotional need for attention seeking, narcissistic power struggles, and validation.

3. The framing of your problem as a HIPPA violation was an ENTIRE waste of time for this school's principal, school nurse, and anyone else you looped into the drama with the nuanced half-informed baiting.

4. So much of your response reveals EXACTLY why hospitals follow up with schools. While you may want to cherry 🍒 pick the process TUITION FREE schools use to carry out care for kids, KIDS COME FIRST. If even one life is saved, or family is assisted by the policy to follow up AFTER consent is given, its worth it. [/quote]

OP here...I admit that the post [i]was [/i]rather lengthy, but only because I wanted to address the uninformed, closed-minded, arrogant, antagonistic and baseless attacks that were made against our family. Your post fits more than one of those categories.

In one of the earlier post, I believe I [b]did [/b]mention that I may have unknowingly signed a consent allowing the hospital to share the information. That was clearly a mistake on my part, but when you're a parent in the ER with a sick child, your attention is primarily focused on said sick child. Reading through every line of the standard "consent to treat" forms that we've filled out many times before, was not our highest priority...our child was. But again, you don't have kids, so you wouldn't know that. In any case, it seems like both of us could benefit from reading things a bit more carefully.

If you ever have kids of your own, I hope you don't view defending their privacy rights as attention seeking or narcissistic...that would be tragic for them.

[b][quote]OP, this entire thread is a prime example of why administrators and school staff are overwhelmed by parents with an emotional need for attention seeking, narcissistic power struggles, and validation. [/quote][/b]
Are you a school administrator? Are you speaking from experience in this role? I'd love to hear more about your perspective so I can further juxtapose it to the perspective of the other school administrator who posted on this thread. That administrator was appreciative of my post, was glad to have been made aware of the practice I described, and didn't share any of your concerns at all.

Lastly, I'm sure you missed it in my earlier post, but I never mentioned reaching out to the school principal. I did however, speak to THREE executive level, hospital administrators (including one in the ombudsman's office), and two of them had NO IDEA that the practice of sharing ER visit info with DCPS school nurses even existed...they were just as surprised as I was. The third was someone who was directly involved with the Children's/DCPS school nurse partnership and it was this person who explained the practice to me.

I'm so sorry that my post didn't meet your standards, but if you provide an email address, I'll be sure to run my next post by you for approval. #NOT..lol. Seriously, this is like your 3rd or 4th snarky comment on this thread...what's with all the passive aggression? And why are you so worked up about this? You realize that you don't have to respond right?

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