Evans Memorial Hospital respects your right
as a patient, recognizing that each patient is an
individual with unique healthcare needs. It is
the hospital’s obligation and privilege to assist
you in exercising your rights as a patient and to
inform you of any responsibilities you may have in
exercising your rights.
The patient and as applicable-parent,
guardian, or other legal representative has the
right to:
• Receive care, treatment, and/or services that
respect your cultural, psychosocial, religious
and spiritual values, beliefs and preferences,
respects and preserves your personal dignity,
and contributes to a positive self-image.
• Impartial access to medically indicated
treatment without discrimination regardless of
age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language,
physical or mental disability, socioeconomic
status, sex, sexual orientation, and gender
identity or expression.
• Have an Advance Directive (such as a living will
or durable power of attorney for healthcare)
concerning treatment with the expectation that
the hospital staff and practitioners who provide
care will honor that directive to the extent
permitted by law.
• Designate a decision-maker in case you are
incapable of understanding a proposed
treatment, procedure, or if you are unable to
communicate your wishes regarding your care.
• Know the identity of physicians, nurses, and
others involved in your care, treatment, or
services, as well as, when those involved are
students, or other trainees.
• Ask and be informed of the existence of
business relationships among the hospital,
educational institutions, other healthcare
providers, or payers that may influence your
treatment and care.
• Obtain information from physicians and other
direct caregivers in understandable terms
concerning diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and
plans for discharge and follow-up care.
• Have your family, as appropriate and allowed by
law, to be involved in your care, treatment, and
service decisions.
• Make decisions about your care and refuse care,
treatment, or services to the extent permitted
by law and to be informed of the medical
consequences of such action.
• Participate in the development and
implementation of your plan of care.
• Consideration of security and personal privacy.
Case discussion, consultation, examination, and
treatment should be conducted to protect your
privacy. You may request transfer to another
room if another patient or visitors in that room
are unreasonably disturbing you.
• Be provided with information about outcomes
of care, treatment, and services, including
unanticipated adverse outcomes that the
patient needs in order to participate in current
and future healthcare decisions.
• Expect that all communications and records
pertaining to your care be treated as
confidential by the hospital, except in cases
such as suspected abuse or public health
hazards when reporting is permitted or
required by law.
• Information about hospital policies that relate
to your care. You have the right to express
a concern or file a complaint or grievance
regarding your care to the attending physician,
nurse assigned to you, or the Nursing
Supervisor. You have the right to a timely
response to your concern or complaint and
a resolution when possible. Expression of a
concern or complaint will not compromise your
care or future access to care. You may ask to
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Patient Rights & Responsibilities