2010 Tennessee Code
Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources
Part 9 - Rights of Nursing Home Residents and Patients, and Members of the Public Regarding Nursing Homes
68-11-904 - Confidentiality of complainant's identity.
68-11-904. Confidentiality of complainant's identity.
(a) Whenever the department conducts inspections and investigations in response to complaints received from the public, the identity of the complainant and the identity of any patient or resident who is the subject of the complaint, or identified in the complaint, shall be treated as confidential and shall not be open to inspection by members of the public, notwithstanding any provision of title 10, chapter 7 to the contrary.
(b) It being in the public interest that the identity of a person described in subsection (a) shall be protected from disclosure, the person's identity shall be provided in response to litigation, only after a finding by the court that justice so requires.
[Acts 1987, ch. 312, § 8.]
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