Woodwinds on Accusations of Employee Being Told to Destroy Records: Never Happened

A former patient advocate at the Woodbury hospital said she was told to destroy documents, according to a Star Tribune story.

A former employee at Woodwinds Hospital claims she was told to destroy notes and emails that could mar the hospital’s reputation, according to a Star Tribune story. In a federal lawsuit, Barbara Peterson, who worked as a patient advocate at the Woodbury facility before she was fired in 2010, says she was told to “remove or destroy” documentation that might paint the hospital in a bad light, the Star Tribune reports. One allegation says a doctor was drunk while delivering a baby. She also took more than 200 pages of confidential patient files and refuses to return them, the story says. Woodwinds officials provided Patch with a statement about the lawsuit. “We have conducted a thorough investigation and determined clearly that Ms. Peterson …

•  3 Comments
• Photos (1)