Metropolitan General Hospital Has an Alcohol Abuse Inpatient Treatment Program

Metropolitan General Hospital has an alcohol abuse inpatient treatment program.A patient's next of kin calls the health information department to confirm inpatient admission to the hospital.

A) A request for such information, even when being asked by the next of kin, is never disclosed without the patient's consent or court order/subpoena.
B) Doctors responsible for providing treatment to the inpatient would be contacted to ask if it was acceptable to release the patient's inpatient status.
C) It is acceptable to indicate that the patient is an inpatient when a facility is not publicly identified by name as an alcohol or drug abuse treatment facility.
D) The health information department employee could confirm the inpatient admission if the location of the patient in the hospital is also disclosed.