Patient's Bill of Rights & Responsibilities
Your Rights:
- Access to available treatment and accommodations regardless of age, sex, marital status, race, creed, color, national origin, source of payment, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical handicap
- Respect and privacy during your care
- Confidentiality relative to your care as directed by you or authorized by law
- Personal safety
- Identification and status of caregivers
- Information concerning diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis in terms you can understand
- Access to an interpreter if you do not speak English
- Access to your medical record and to make corrections if necessary
- Refusing treatment to the extent permitted by law
- Detailed explanation of bill
- Information about hospital rules and regulations
- Access to people outside the hospital via visitors and written/verbal communications
- Timely notice prior to termination of eligibility by third-party payer for cost of care
- To be aware of experimental therapy and the right to refuse
- The right to participate in the development and implementation of his or her plan of care
- To formulate advance directives and to have hospital staff and practitioners comply with directives
- The right to have a family member or representative of choice and his/her own personal physician notified promptly of his/her admission to the hospital
- To be free from all forms of abuse or harassment
- To be free from restraints of any form that aren’t medically necessary
Your Responsibilities:
- Provide accurate and complete health information to the hospital
- Comply with instructions/be responsible for your actions if you fail to do so
- Fulfill financial obligations
- Follow hospital rules and regulations
- Respect the rights of others
- Ask questions if you do not understand any aspect of your care
- If you have any questions or concerns regarding your patient rights and responsibilities, please contact your physician, the charge nurse, the Director of Nursing or the Administrator.