Notice of Information & Privacy Practice
This notice describes how medical information about your care may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information.
Please Review It Carefully.
Understanding your health record/information:
Each time you visit a hospital, physician, or receive a home visit from a health care professional, a record of your visit is made. This information, often referred to as your Protected Health
Information (PHI).
Your health information rights:
Unless otherwise required by law, your health record is the physical property of the healthcare practitioner or facility that compiled it, but the information belongs to you. You have the right
to:
- Request in writing a restriction on certain uses and disclosures of your information.
- Request in writing amendments to your health record.
- Inspect and request in writing a copy of your health record.
Our responsibilities:
We are required to maintain the privacy of your health information. We will:
- Provide you with a notice as to our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to information we collect and maintain about you and will abide by the terms of this notice.
- Accommodate reasonable requests you may have to communicate health information by alternative means or at alternative locations.
- Reserve the right to change our practices and to make the new provision effective for all protected health information we maintain. Should our information practices change, we will mail a revised notice to the address you have supplied us.
- Use your health information for treatment and/or treatment alternatives.
- Use your health information for payment.
- Use your health information for regular healthcare operations.
- Allow business associates access. To protect your health information, we require the business associate to appropriately safeguard your information.
- Cooperate with law enforcement: We may disclose health information for law enforcement purposes as required by law, or in response to a valid subpoena.
Authorization to use or disclose health information:
We will not disclose your health information without your written authorization other than listed above. If you or your representative authorizes use or disclose your health information, you
may revoke such authorization in writing at any time.