Your Rights & Responsibilities
As a patient in the hospital or facility, you have rights that the facility is committed to protect and promote. Te hospital respects your rights and recognizes that you are an individual with unique healthcare needs and because of the importance of respecting your personal dignity, provides considerate, respectful care focused on your individual needs. 1. Te right to impartial access to treatment or accommodations that are available or medically indicated and hospital prohibits discrimination based on age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.
2. Te right to know the identity and professional status of individuals providing service and to know which physician or other practitioner is primarily responsible for your care. Tis includes the right to know of the existence of any professional relationship to any other healthcare or educational institutions involved in your care.
3. Te right to obtain complete and current information concerning diagnosis (to the degree known), treatment, and any known prognosis or unanticipated outcomes. Tis information will be communicated in terms that are understood. Te hospital will provide information to the patient who has vision, speech, hearing, or cognitive impairment in a manner that meets the patient’s needs to include adherence to the hospital policy on service animals.
4. Te right to participate in decisions involving healthcare. To the degree possible, this should be based on a clear, concise explanation of your condition and of proposed technical procedures, including the possibilities of any risk of mortality or serious side
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effects, problems related to recuperation, and probability of success. You will not be subjected to any procedure without your voluntary consent or that of your legally authorized representative (except in emergencies).
5. Te hospital honors the patient’s right to give or withhold informed consent to produce or use recordings, films, or other images of the patient for purposes other than his or her care.
6. Te right to receive, from your physician, information necessary to give informed consent prior to the start of any procedure and/or treatment, the specific procedure and/ or treatment, the risks involved, the probable duration of incapacitation, alternatives for care or treatment, and benefits of the procedure and/or treatment. You also have the right to know the name of the person performing the procedures and/or treatment.
7. Te patient or the Patient’s Representative (as allowed under state law) has the right to make informed decisions regarding his or her care. Tis includes the right to be informed of the patient’s health status, being involved in care planning and treatment, and being able to request or refuse treatment and to be informed of the medical consequences of such refusal.
8. Te right to have a completed Advance Directive (such as a Living Will or Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare) placed in the medical record with the expectation that the hospital staff and Practitioners will honor the directive to the extent permitted by law and hospital policy.
9. Te right that the care provided will not be discontinued based on the presence of an advance directive.
10. Te right to expect that all communications and records pertaining to care will be
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