Privacy Policy

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.

Our pledge regarding medical information:

The privacy of your medical information is important to us. We understand that your medical information is personal and we are committed to protecting it. We need this record to provide you with quality care and to comply with certain legal requirements. This notice will tell you about the way use and share medical information about you. We also describe your rights and certain duties we have regarding the use and disclosure of medical information.

Our Legal Duty:

Keep your medical information private. Give you this notice describing our legal duties, privacy practice, and your right regarding your medical information. Follow the terms of the notice that is now in effect.

We have the Right to:
Change our privacy practices and the terms of this notice at any time, provided that the changes are permitted by law. Make the changes in our privacy practices and the new terms of our notice effective for all medical information that we keep, including information previously created or received before the change.

Notice of Changes to Privacy Practice:
Before we make an important change in our privacy practice, we will change this notice and make the new notice available upon request.

USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR MEDICAL INFORMATION:

The following section describes different ways that we use and disclose medical information. Not every use or disclosure will be listed. However, we have listed all of the different ways we are permitted to use and disclose medical information. We will not use or disclose your medical information for any purpose not listed below, without your specific written authorization. Any specific written authorization you provide may be revoked at any time by writing to us.

For Treatment: We may use medical information about you to provide you with medical treatment or services. We may disclose medical information about you to doctors, nurses, technicians, medical students. Or other people who are taking care of you. We nay also share medical information about you to your other health care providers to assist them in treating you.

For Payment: We may use and disclose your medical information for payment purposes.

For Health Care Operations: We may use and disclose your medical information for our health care operations. This might include measuring and improving quality. Evaluating the performance of employees, conducting training programs, and getting the accreditation, certificates, licensed and credentials we need to serve you.

Additional Uses and Disclosures: In addition to using and disclosing your medical information for treatment, payment, and health care operations, we may use and disclose medical information for the following purposes:

Notification: Medical information to notify or help notify: a family member, your personal representative or another person responsible for your care. We will share information about your location, general condition, or death. If you are present, we will get your permission if possible before we share, or you the opportunity to refuse permission. In care of emergency, and if you are not able to hive or refuse permission, we will share only the health information that is directly necessary for your health care, according to our professional judgment. We will also use our professional judgment to make decisions in your best interest about allowing someone to pick up medicine, medical supplies, x-ray, or medical information for you.

Disaster Relief: Medical information with a public or private organization or person who can legally assist in disaster relief effort.

Funeral Director, Coroner, Medical Examiner: to help them carry out their duties, we may share the medical information of a person who has died with a coroner, medical examiner, funeral director, or an organ procurement organization.

Specialized Government Functions: Subject to certain requirements, we may disclose or use health information for military personnel and veterans, for national security and intelligence activities, for protective services for the President and others, for medical suitability determinations for the Department of State, for correctional institutions and other law enforcement custodial situations, and for government programs providing public benefits.

Court Orders and Judicial and Administrative Proceedings: We may disclose medical information in response to a court or administrative order, subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process, under certain circumstances. Under limited circumstances, such as a court order, warrant, or grand jury subpoena, we may share your medical information with, law enforcement officials. We, may share your medical information with law enforcement officials. We may share limited information with a law enforcement official concerning the medical information of a suspect, fugitive, material witness, crime victim or missing person, We may share the medical information of an inmate or other person in lawful custody with a law enforcement official or correctional institution under certain circumstances.

Public Health Activities: As required by law, we may disclose your medical information to public health or legal authorities charged with preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability, including child abuse or neglect. We may also disclose your medical information to persons subject to jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration for purposes of reporting adverse events associated with product defects or problems, to enable product recalls, repairs or replacements, to track products. Or to conduct activities required by the Food and Drug Administration. We may also, when we are authorized by law to do so, notify a person who may have been exposed to a communicable diseases or otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading a disease or condition.

Victims of Abuse, Neglect, or Domestic Violence: We may disclose medical information to appropriate authorities if we reasonably believe that you are a possible victim of abuse. Neglect, or domestic violence or the possible victim of other crimes. WE may share your medical information if it is necessary to prevent serious threat to your health or safety or the health or safety of others. We may share medical information when necessary to help law enforcement officials capture a person who has admitted to being part of a crime or has escaped form legal custody.

Workers Compensation: We may disclose health information when authorized and necessary to comply with laws relating to workers compensation or other similar programs.

Health Oversight Activities: We may disclose medical information to an agency providing health oversight for oversight activities authorized by law, including audit, civil, administrative, or criminal instigations or proceedings, inspection, licensure, or disciplinary actions, or other authorized activities.

Law Enforcement: Under certain circumstances, we may disclose health information to law enforcement officials, i.e. certain types of wounds, subpoenas, or court orders, suspected victims of crimes, reporting death, crimes of our premises, and crimes in emergencies.

YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU.

You have Right to: Look at or get copies of your medical information. You must make your request in writing. If you request a copy of the information, we may charge a fee for the cost of copying, mailing or other supplies associated with your request. We may deny your request to inspect and copy, in certain very limited circumstances. If you are denied access to your records, you may request that the denial be reviewed. You may request that we place additional restrictions on our use or disclosure of your medical information. We are not required to agree to these additional restriction, but if we do, we will abide by our agreement (except in the case of an emergency). You may request that we change your medical information. We may deny your request if we did not create the information you want changed or for certain other reasons. If we deny your request, we will provide you a written explanation. You may respond with a statement of disagreement that will be added to the information you wanted changed. If we accept your request to change the information, we will make reasonable efforts to tell others, including people you named, of the change and to include the changes in any future sharing of that information.

Questions and Complaints: If you have any questions about this notice or if you think that we may have violated your privacy right, please contact us. You may also submit a written complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We will not retaliate in any way if you choose to file a complaint.

OTHER USES OF MEDICAL INFORMATION.

Other uses and disclosures of medical information not covered by this notice, or the laws that apply to us will be made only with your written permission. If you provide us permission to use of disclose medical information about you, you may revoke that permission, in writing, at any time. If you revoke you permission, we will no longer use or disclose medical information about you for the reasons covered by your written authorization. You understand that we are unable to take back any disclosure we have already made with your permission, and that we are required to retain our records of the care that we provide to you.

 

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