Newark Developmental Center (N.Y.) Medical Records

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This fragmentary series consists of several types of medical records. Register of operations lists date of operation, register number, major or minor, name of patient, room number, name of surgeon, name of assistant, age of patient, anesthetist, anesthesia, name of surgical nurse, postoperative diagnosis, circulating nurse, operation type, drainage, anesthesia unit, surgical code number, complications, hospital number, specimen to lab, and postoperative condition. Register notes that the surgery facility was closed January 1980 and contains a list of nurses and anesthetists who worked in the surgery facility with their service dates. Series also includes an x-ray logbook consisting of compiled reports of results of tuberculosis tests, two small menstruation logbooks, and two small pharmaceutical logbooks.

Item list is available at the repository.

Restricted permanently in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records, by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the N.Y. Public Health Law section 18 and Freedom of Information law section 89.2(b)(ii) relating to personal health information. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.