Ethics & Patient Rights
Lifespan Summary
of Joint Privacy Practices
See the full Privacy Notice for greater
detail
Lifespan and its partners are required by federal law to provide
a Privacy Notice that describes how the medical and health care
information we maintain about you may be used or disclosed. Your
health information is confidential. The Privacy Notice describes
each use and disclosure of your information that we are permitted
to make, as well as our obligations and your rights under the law.
Uses and Disclosures
Under a variety of circumstances we may use your medical information
without obtaining your prior authorization. For example, we may
use your information to
- provide you with treatment;
- ensure the quality of your care;
- bill and/or collect payment for the services you were provided;
and/or
- report communicable disease, domestic violence or criminal activity.
We may use your medical information in other situations, but you
have the opportunity to object. For example, unless you object,
the hospital directory will include limited information about you,
or we may release information, as permitted under the law, about
your condition to family and friends involved in, or who help pay
for, your care.
Your Rights
While the records we maintain belong to us, you have rights with
regard to the information contained in those records.
For example, you have the right to
- correct, but not delete, and update the information;
- choose where and how the information is sent to you; and
- obtain a list of the non-routine disclosures of your information
that have been made.
All of these rights are subject to some exceptions, which are described
in the attached privacy notice.
Our Obligations
We are required to provide you with our
Privacy Notice and to abide by its terms. We can amend the Privacy
Notice from time to time. We reserve the right to make the amended
or changed Notice effective for medical information we already have
about you, as well as for any medical information we receive in
the future.
If, after reviewing the Privacy Notice, you have any questions
or need additional information, please call the hospital's contact
person at the telephone number below or call the Lifespan Privacy
Officer.
- Rhode Island Hospital: 401-444-4560
- The Miriam Hospital: 401-793-7074
- Bradley Hospital: 401-432-1129
- Newport Hospital: 401-845-1150
- Lifespan/Physicians PSO: 401-444-2236
- Lifespan Privacy Officer: 401-444-4728
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