Fifteen hospital workers have been fired and another eight disciplined for looking at medical records of octuplet mother Nadya Suleman without permission , hospital officials said . Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center reported the violations of health care privacy laws to the state and has warned employees to keep away from Suleman 's records unless they have a medical purpose , hospital spokesman Jim Anderson said Monday . " Despite the notoriety of this case , to us this person is a patient who deserves the privacy that all our patients get , " Anderson said . Anderson would not elaborate on how the other eight employees were reprimanded , saying only that the punishments were significant . A similar privacy breach at UCLA hospitals led to celebrities ' medical information getting leaked to tabloids in recent years , including details of Farrah Fawcett 's cancer treatment showing up in the National Enquirer . An investigation there resulted in firings , suspensions and warnings for 165 hospital employees , ranging from doctors to orderlies . Anderson said Kaiser does not believe any of Suleman 's information was shared with the media , based on the results of their inquiry . The 33 - year - old single mother of 14 gave birth to her octuplets on Jan. 26 at Kaiser 's hospital in Bellflower , about 17 miles ( 27 kilometers ) southeast of Los Angeles . Her attorney Jeff Czech said Suleman does not plan to file a lawsuit over the breach , though he suspects Kaiser employees were looking for medical information on Suleman 's sperm donor . He said the name is not listed on the medical records . " She trusts Kaiser and they said they 'd look into it , " Czech said . " We feel that they 're on top of it and are taking care of it . " Anderson could not provide details about when Suleman 's medical records were accessed and what kind of hospital employees looked at them . He said Kaiser had warned its employees about patient confidentiality rules before Suleman checked into the hospital in December . " Even though no one knew she was there , they knew she was going to have a lot of babies , " Anderson said . " The extra monitoring helped determine that there were people who looked at the records who did not have reason to do so . " Even if the employees peeked at the records just to satisfy their curiosity , without any intention of disclosing details , they were disciplined according to Kaiser 's policies , Anderson said . It was unclear whether a state investigation was under way at Kaiser . A call to the California Department of Public Health was not returned Monday evening . ;