Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 27, 2000, which ruled, inter alia, that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.
Claimant was employed as a social worker by the employer hospital. In March 1999, she was assigned to coordinate a program for patients who were both mentally ill and chemically addicted. Approximately seven weeks later, claimant was discharged from her employment for having entered in a patient’s report that he had “been missing his scheduled IC [individual counseling sessions] because this writer has been very busy.” Claimant subsequently testified that this statement was false, but that she had entered it in the patient’s report as a means of communicating to her supervisor that she was overburdened with work assignments, a topic which he
Substantial evidence in the record supports the Board’s finding that claimant lost her employment under disqualifying circumstances. Her conduct, whereby she knowingly entered false information in a patient’s medical records, could have proven detrimental to the patient, whose medical records are relied upon by other health care professionals involved in his treatment (see, Matter of Dennis [Commissioner of Labor],
Cardona, P. J., Mercure, Crew III, Peters and Spain, JJ., concur. Ordered that the decision is affirmed, without costs.