Spoken like a true lawyer. I have some time working as an emergency dispatcher. We were told when frantic persons called us trying to find which hospital their injured or even dead father, brother, sister, daughter, son, husband or wife was transported to... that we were not suppose to tell them. How did we know that they really were who they claimed to be? Fortunately, most of us non-lawyers have more human decency than fear of losing our jobs. Citing HIPPA on this situation is a travesty... It was 50 years ago, the records were in the public domain for most of that time.
I called several hospitals in a panic last year looking for a relative I couldn’t locate (who was supposed to meet me somewhere and did not show up and would not answer their cell phone) and every single hospital looked up the information for me without hesitation.