Your organization keeps paper records for ten years, and you are purging records for destruction. What concern do you have with staff pulling records strictly based on that ten-year indicator?

Your HIM department is moving to a new office. In the moving process, in the back of a storage closet, a box of old registries is found. These contain records of births at the organization 50 years ago. What should be done with those records?

There has been debate in your HIM department about how long fetal monitoring strips must be retained. They are considered part of the mothers health record. What is your recommendation?

You have just taken a new job at a tertiary care facility after working in a small community hospital. At your previous employment, records were retained for 15 years and then destroyed. At this new facility, records are maintained permanently. What inference can you draw from this difference in procedure?

You have just become HIM director at a small critical access hospital. The hospital purges records for destruction quarterly, and the staff has all the records boxed and ready to go. The destruction company workers arrive to collect the records and load them into the truck. They are preparing to leave, but you stop them. Why?

Address each question with specific guidelines, regulations/laws, or best practices (at least one paragraph for each prompt)