ER assignment

I went to the ER at SOCH today to sit and record notes for the assignment. I figured when I walked in I would tell them why I was there and they would let me stay, this was not the case. The way the ER is set up, there is a window right at the entrance, with the initial nurse who takes down your information, and you have to go down the hall about 10 feet and make a right to get in the waiting room. When the receptionist nurse saw me I told him why I was there, and he told me I couldn't be there because it violates HIPAA laws, but he would ask security. Then a larger woman who was also a nurse came and told me what happens behind those doors is confidential. I told her I wasn't asking to go behind the doors I was just going to sit in the waiting room, but apparently that wasn't allowed either, so I was told I had to leave. I just looked up the HIPAA laws to see why I was made to leave and this is what I found: 

How Is This Information Protected 

• Covered entities must put in place safeguards to protect your health information.
• Covered entities must reasonably limit uses and disclosures to the minimum necessary to accomplish their intended purpose.
• Covered entities must have contracts in place with their contractors and others ensuring that they use and disclose your health information properly and safeguard it appropriately.
• Covered entities must have procedures in place to limit who can view and access your health information as well as implement training programs for employees about how to protect your health information.

Information meaning a patients medical information. So I guess this entity, SOCH, deems it necessary to not allow outside parties into the ER as a method to safeguard the medical information of their patients.