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• Receive care in a safe and secure
environment.
• Be free from all forms of abuse including
mental, physical, sexual, and or
verbal abuse, neglect, harassment, or
exploitation. Violence is not permitted
and will not be tolerated with regard to
interactions between patients, guests,
visitors or our staff members.
• Be free from seclusion or restraints
of any form that are not medically
necessary.
• Receive information about pain and pain
relief measures as appropriate to the
medical diagnosis or surgical procedure.
• A concerned staff committed to pain
prevention and management.
• Effective communication. If you need
a translator, one will be provided for
you for language interpreting and
translation services.
• Have information provided to you if
you have vision, speech, hearing, or
cognitive impairments in a manner that
meets your needs.
• Consent or refuse to participate in any
research or treatment that is considered
experimental in nature and to have those
studies fully explained prior to consent.
• Participate in decisions regarding
ethical issues surrounding your care,
treatment, and services, including
issues of conflict resolution, withholding
resuscitation, forgoing or withholding
of life sustaining treatment and
participations in investigational studies
or clinical trials. You may ask your
nurse or physician to consult the Ethics
Committee for resolution of conflicts in
decision making regarding your care.
You may request to see a copy of the
hospital’s Ethical Issue Resolution Policy
and the Code of Organizational Ethics
Policy, if desired.
• Have your spiritual, psychosocial and
cultural beliefs respected.
• Have access to protective, and advocacy
services, if necessary.
• Access information contained in your
medical records (inspect and obtain a
copy), within a reasonable time frame
and have information explained or
interpreted as necessary, except as
restricted by law.
• Request restrictions on the hospital’s
use and disclosure of protected health
information.
• Receive confidential communications
about your protected information in
a certain way or at a certain location.
The hospital will grant any reasonable
request.
• An accounting of disclosures of your
protected health information made in
the 6 years prior to the date of request,
except for disclosures to carry out
treatment, payment and healthcare
operations.
• Request that your medical information
be amended. The hospital will respond
to all requests. The hospital may
deny a patient’s request if the medical
information is accurate and complete,
or if the request pertains to information
the hospital did not create.
• Receive a copy of Meadows Regional
Medical Center’s Notice of Privacy
Practices for Protected Health
Information.
• Examine and receive an explanation
of your hospital bill, regardless of the
source of payment.
• Respect patient’s right to refuse care,
treatment, and services, in accordance
with law and regulations.
• Access, request amendment to, and
receive information on disclosures of
own health information.
• Have a family member, friend, or other
individual to be present with you for
emotional support during the course
of stay as well as the right to withdraw
consent for visitation at any time.
• Request a discharge planning evaluation
by notifying your nurse of your request.
Additional Pediatric Rights:
In addition to the rights above,
patients (and as applicable, parents,
guardians, or other legal representatives)
have the right to:
• Have their developmental needs met
while they are in the hospital in an
environment that is supportive of
infants, children, and adolescents.
• Have their parents recognized as
partners in decision making and care of
their child, as permitted by law.
In providing care, hospitals have the
right to expect behavior on the part of
patients, their relatives, and friends,
which considering their illness, is
reasonable and responsible.