THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
We have summarized our responsibilities and your rights on this first page. For a complete description of our privacy practices, please review this entire notice.
Our facility is required to:
As a residentof our facility, you have several rights withregard to your healthinformation, including the following:
We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and to make the new provisions effective for all healthinformationwe maintain. Should our privacy practices change, we will post the changes on the bulletinboard in our facility, as well as on our web site. A copy of the revised notice will be available after the effective date of the changes upon request.
We willnotuseordiscloseyourhealthinformationwithoutyour authorization, exceptas described in this notice.Thus, for example, we will require your authorization before we would use or disclose your protected health information for marketing purposes, and, if applicable, for most uses ofpsychotherapy notes. In addition, we willnotsell your healthinformation without a specific authorization from you.
If have questions and would like additional information, you may contact our facility’s PrivacyOfficer at 410-877-6630.