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Patient Responsibilities
1. You are expected to follow the hospital’s policies.
• Tobacco products and smoking are prohibited in the hospital.
• For the safety and well being of our patients, visitors and the workforce, the following items may not be brought onto the hospital premises: Unprescribed narcotics or other illegal drugs, alcoholic beverages, rearms or weapons of any type.
• Help to control noise in your room.
• Please be courteous to the hospital workforce, other patients and visitors.
• Please be respectful and considerate of the hospital workforce and property, as well as other patients and their property.
2. You are expected to provide information about your health history and current condition.
3. You are expected to ask questions if you do not understand your care, treatment or services.
4. You are expected to follow the instructions for the care and treatment plan you receive from your physician and other healthcare team members and accept the consequences for not following the care and treatment recommended.
5. You are expected to meet nancial commitments.
Note: “You,” as used throughout this document, refers to the patient or the responsible person legally authorized to make decisions for the patient.
Your Privacy
Your health information is protected by Federal law. The Privacy Rule gives you rights over your health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your health information.
Who Must Follow This Law?
• Most doctors, clinics, hospitals, psychologists, chiropractors, nursing homes, pharmacies and dentists
• Health insurance companies, HMOs, company health plans and certain government programs that pay
for healthcare, such as Medicare
and Medicaid
What Information Is Protected?
• Ask to see and get a copy of your health records
• Have corrections added to your health information
• Receive a notice that tells you how your health information may be used and shared
• Decide if you want to give your permission before your health information can be used or shared for certain purposes, such as
for marketing
• Get a report on when and why your
health information was shared for
certain purposes
If you believe your rights are being denied or your health information isn’t being protected, you can le a complaint with your provider or health insurer or with the U.S. Government.
Your health information cannot be used or shared without your written permission. Without your authorization, your provider generally cannot:
• Give your information to your employer
• Use or share your information for marketing or advertising purposes or sell your information
• Share your mental health professional’s private notes about your counseling sessions
Who Can See and Receive Your Health Information? e Privacy Rule sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your health information. To make sure that your health information is protected
in a way that does not interfere with your healthcare, your information can be used and shared:
• For your treatment and care coordination
• To pay doctors and hospitals for your healthcare and to help run their businesses
• With your family, relatives, friends, or others you identify who are involved with your healthcare or your healthcare bills, unless you object
• To make sure doctors give good care and nursing homes are clean and safe
• To protect the public health, such as by reporting when the u is in your area
• To make required reports to the police, such as reporting gunshot wounds
To obtain a copy of the Joint Privacy Practices,
please visit
Patient Access Services (PAS).
Courtesy of e U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Information your doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers put in your medical record
Conversations your doctor has about your care or treatment with nurses and others
Information about you in your health insurer’s computer system
Billing information about you
at your clinic
Most other health information about you held by those who must follow these laws
What Rights Do You Have Over Your Health Information? Health Insurers and Providers must comply with your right to:
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