Receive treatment without regard to sex, culture, economic, educational, religious background, handicap or the source of payment
for care.
- Considerate and respectful care.
To know the name of your primary care physician and other health care providers who will see you as a patient.
Receive information from the physician about your illness, your course of treatment and your prospects for recovery in terms
that you can understand.
Receive as much information about any proposed treatment or procedure as you may need in order to give informed consent or to
refuse the course of treatment. Except in emergencies, this information shall include a description of the procedure or treatment,
the medically significant risks involved in the treatment, alternate course of treatment or non-treatment and the risks involved in
each and to know the name of the person who will carry out the procedure or treatment.
- Participate actively in decisions regarding your medical care.
Full consideration of privacy concerning your medical care. All aspects of your care and treatment are confidential and should
be conducted discreetly. You have the right to be advised as to the reason for the presence of any individual.
Give your written permission before your medical records can be made available to anyone, directly or not directly concerned
with your care.
- Reasonable responses to any reasonable request you make for service.
- Leave the hospital even against the advice of your physician.
Be informed by your physician or a designee of your physician of the continuing health care requirements following your discharge from the hospital.
- Examine and receive an explanation of your bill regardless of source of payment.
Know which hospital policies and procedures apply to your conduct while you are a patient as stated in the patient handbook.
Have all of your patient's rights apply to the person who may have legal responsibility to make decisions regarding medical care for you.
- Be encouraged and assisted throughout your period of stay, to exercise your rights as a patient, to voice grievances and recommend changes in policies and services to facility staff and/or outside representatives of your choice, free from restraint, interference, coercion, discrimination or reprisal.
Be free from mental and physical abuse and free from chemical and (except in emergencies) physical restraints, except as authorized in writing by a physician for a specified and limited time period, or when necessary to protect you from injury to yourself or to others.
Associate and communicate privately with persons of your choice, and send or receive your personal mail unopened.
Retain and use your personal clothing and possessions as space permits, unless to do so would infringe on the rights of other patients.
Be assured privacy for visits with your spouse. If both are inpatients in the facility, they are permitted to share a room when space is available, unless medically contraindicated.
- Safe and effective pain management.
