Notice of Privacy Practices

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 Responsibilities

Our facility is required to:

  • Maintain the privacy of your health information.
  • Provide you withthisnoticeofour legaldutiesandprivacy practiceswithrespectto informationwe collect and maintain about you.
  • Abide by the terms of this notice.
  • Notify you following a breach of unsecured protected health information.

Your Rights

As a residentof our facility, you have several rights withregard to your healthinformation, including the following:

  • The right to request that we not use or disclose your health information in certain ways.
  • The right to request to receive communicationsin an alternative manner or location.
  • The right to access and obtain a copy of your health information.
  • The right to request an amendment to your health information.
  • The right to an accounting of disclosures of your health information.

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.