“I started there when it was paper,” Marcussen says of the records system when she arrived at RIDOC in 1997. In that time, in addition to AHIMA’s RHIA credential after her name, Marcussen has added a doctorate in health administration and a CCHP credential-Certified Correctional Health Professional-from the NCCHC, whose mission is improving the quality of healthcare in jails, prisons, and juvenile confinement facilities through standards-setting, accreditation, certification, published resources, and educational conferences.įor 2021, she serves as the NCCHC Board chair-elect, having served for multiple years as the AHIMA liaison representing HI on the board’s multidisciplinary-by-design roster. Marcussen is now coming up on her 25th year of work on the RIDOC multi-facility campus in Cranston, RI, south of Providence. That time, “I thought, ‘You know what, why not? Let’s give it a shot.’” Credentialed By and Representing AHIMA Three months later, the RIDOC job was reposted. Now she was in her first healthcare job, as the operations manager overseeing HI and administration at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital located in the coastal city of New London, CT. Her interest in health records management had started when she was a teen, helping out with files in the convalescent home her family owned. She hadn’t yet imagined a path leading to a correctional healthcare career. The first time she came across the job posting for a health information (HI) professional at RIDOC, “I blew it off,” she says. Marcussen has a way of calling situations likes she sees them. Health care provided in the correctional environment is part of the health care delivery system,” she says. “HIPAA was put in place to provide patients access to their own personal health information. In July, Pauline Marcussen, DHA, RHIA, CCHP, administrator of healthcare services at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) and a part of the policy and research committee for the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), wrote about HIPAA in an online article announcing a new NCCHC position statement aimed at improving healthcare for individuals re-entering the community after time in jail or prison, Sharing of Patient Health Records Upon Release From Incarceration.
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