No one got a call from anyone. The hospital president has nothing to do with releasing records.
Absolutely!
If a minimum wage clerk's boss's, boss's, boss's boss tells her not to release a file, she'll just ignore him.
What color is the sky on your planet?
Jim Noble-as a HIPAA and Affordability Care Act (ACA-Obamacare) attorney and a Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel with 28 years of experience in dealing with medical records and medical privacy and having authored seven books on employee benefits law and who frequently visits DC to deal with the bureaucrats in the HHS, DOL and IRS as well as congress critters and the occasional senator, I’d be willing to bet some cold hard cash against your claim.
You game?