1.4 million medical records destroyed in fire
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Posted at: 08/12/2010 2:32 PM | Updated at: 08/12/2010 5:40 PM
By: Charlie Pabst, KOB.com
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center announced Thursday that the majority of patient medical records created prior to 2005 were destroyed in a June warehouse fire.
The health facility says that 90% of stored records are lost, either from the fire itself or water used to extinguish the blaze. That totals 1.4 million records, according to the university.
The fire near Broadway and Mountain was visible from the entire metro area and burned for several days. The fire rekindled more than a week later.
The health sciences center says damaged and destroyed records were secured just after the fire was put out, and will be disposed of under federal laws.
The center says anyone who requests records that were destroyed will be informed of the fire and provided with a document to certify the incident.
The university says all records since 2005 are stored digitall
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