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Summary of Our Private Practices - Click on the link to the right for the complete Notice of Privacy PracticesThis summary briefly describes how we, the Hopedale Medical Complex, may you and disclose your Protected Health Information (PHI) to carry out your treatment, payment activities, health care operations, and for other purposes that are permitted or required by law, and your rights to access and control you PHI. For a more complete description of how we may use and disclose you’re PHI, feel free to refer to attached Notice of Privacy Practices. This Notice of Private Practices became effective on April 14, 2003. Our Responsibilities We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your PHI. In accordance with the HIPAA Privacy Regulations, we have the right to use and disclose your PHI for treatment, payment activities and health care operations as explained in the Notice of Privacy Practices. We are most likely to use and/or disclose your PHI for these functions. Additionally, we may use or disclose your PHI as permitted and required by law. For example, we may use or disclose your PHI for public health activities, legal proceedings, or law enforcement purposes. Your Rights You have the following rights to your PHI:
Complaints You may complain to us if you believe we have violated your privacy rights. You also may file a complaint with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Please refer to the following information to inquire about the use of your PHI, to excuse your rights about your PHI, or to register a complaint, submit your complaint in writing to: Hopedale Medical Complex Attn: Medical Records- Privacy Officer P.O. Box 267 Hopedale, IL 61741 (309) 449-4286 Covered Entities Our service locations are as follows:
Hopedale Medical Complex Internet Privacy Policy Personal privacy is an important initiative to Hopedale Medical Complex. We hold the following privacy principles as being critical to our Internet privacy policy: Hopedale Medical Complex does not sell, trade or otherwise convey the name, street address, telephone number, email address or other personal identifiers supplied by visitors of our web sites to outside parties. Hopedale Medical Complex compiles non-personal information from our web site visitors to provide regularly updated statistics. Such information allows us to better assess which resources best meet our visitors' needs. Hopedale Medical Complex provides an appropriate level of security in our computer systems, databases and communication networks to protect web site visitors' information contained in our systems. Please be advised that electronic mail and other Internet communications channels are not necessarily secure against interception. While we take precautions, such as encrypting communications where appropriate, if your communication is very sensitive, or includes information like your diagnosis or medical history, you might want to send it by postal mail instead. |
Our Privacy Practices and Acknowledgement may be downloaded and printed by clicking onto each document below.
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