Home arrow HIPAA
HIPAA PDF Print E-mail
In 1996 the Federal Government passed a law (HIPAA) covering your health information. This notice is a requirement of that law. This notice explains how we use your health information at the Health Center. Below is a summary of the notice.

As part of the HIPAA laws you have the right to:

  • Review your health record
  • Ask for amendments to be made to your health record
  • Add a note of your own to your health record
  • Ask for a listing of who we gave your health record information to, other than those organizations or people listed in the notice even if they got it by accident
  • Have us contact you at a number or address that you provide us
  • Ask us not to contact you about new programs that we might offer

    As part of the HIPAA laws the Health Center must do the following:

  • Protect your health record from anyone not authorized to see the record
  • Provide you with a copy of this notice and let you know if and when we make any changes to this notice
  • Do what this notice says we will do in regards to your health record
  • Train all our staff about how to handle your health record, keeping it private
  • We will not use or give out your health information without your written consent for anything other than what is outlined in this notice.

    You have the right to file a complaint against the Health Center if you feel that we have used your health record in a manner other than what is outlined in this notice and that we have violated your privacy without your consent. Details of all this information is contained in this full Notice of Privacy Practices.

    •  
    [ Back ]