PATIENT BILL of RIGHTS
Your Rights and Responsibilities

Specifically, you have the right to:

• Receive considerate and respectful care.
• Obtain complete and current information about your diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis from your physician.
• Receive the information you need to give informed consent before any procedure or treatment.
• Refuse treatment to the extent permitted by the law, and to be informed of the medical consequences of such action.
• Be free from seclusion or restraints of any kind that are not medically necessary.
• Expect every consideration of your privacy concerning your own medical care program.
• Have a family member and your physician notified of your admission.
• Expect that all communications and records pertaining to your care will be treated as confidential; you have the right to review your own medical record and have access to information contained in your record in a reasonable time frame and at a reasonable price.
• Expect that the hospital will make reasonable response to your request for services.
• Be involved in making care decisions, including managing pain effectively.
• Obtain information as to any relationship of the hospital to other health care and educational institutions insofar as your care is concerned.
• Give or withhold consent to participate in research projects or procedures.
• Expect reasonable continuity of care.
• Examine and receive an explanation of your bill, regardless of the source of payment.
• Know what hospital rules and regulations apply to your conduct as a patient.

And you have a responsibility to:

• Participate actively in decisions regarding your health care.
• Provide accurate, complete, and timely information regarding your medical history, current symptoms and problems, and other matters relating to your health.
• Ask questions and seek clarification in order to understand and be informed about your diagnosis and treatment as well as what is expected of you.
• Work with your physician or nurse to develop a pain management plan.
• Notify your physician or nurse at once if you notice any changes in your health, have any concerns about your health, or cannot or will not follow a certain treatment plan.
• Be considerate of other patients and hospital personnel and assist in the control of noise and number of visitors.