Ohio Court of Claims orders state to release daily hospital staffing, medical supplies and bed capacity data

Cleveland.com ^ | November 13, 2020 | Laura Hancock

[CheshireTheCat]

The Ohio Court of Claims has ordered the Ohio Department of Health to release data about daily hospital staffing levels, medical supplies and bed capacity as the coronavirus pandemic continues.

The court ruled this week in favor of Eye on Ohio, Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism, which sued after it was denied a data request submitted in March. In addition to ordering the records' release, Eye on Ohio is entitled to recover the $24 court filing fees and other costs, except attorney fees, from the Department of Health....In rejecting the records request, the Ohio Department of Health argued the data are security records exempted from disclosure under the state’s public records law. The information tracked through the Ohio Department of Health’s data-gathering software, Surgenet, is for responding to crises, such as bioterrorism or a pandemic, and shouldn’t be released because it could be used in the response to a future terrorism attack, the agency argued.....

Eye on Ohio asked for data on each hospital’s capacity and availability of adult and pediatric medical, surgical critical care and airborne isolation beds, as well as the availability of medical supplies such as ventilators, N95 and other masks, face shields, gloves and gowns....

[Gahanna Bob]

Will Dominion provide the daily tabulations?

[ifinnegan]

They’re hiding it

They will probably gin up numbers now.

[BusterDog]

Yeah, just required to release numbers, no need for the numbers to comport with reality.

[GranTorino]

F Dick DeWine.

[Lowell1775]

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Ohio Court of Claims orders state to release daily hospital staffing, medical supplies and bed capacity data
Cleveland.com ^ | November 13, 2020 | Laura Hancock

Posted on 11/17/2020, 7:00:08 PM by CheshireTheCat