Patient Rights:

• To participate in all care decisions. You have the right to consideration and respect in all aspects of your care.
• To know if this hospital has relationships with outside parties that may influence your treatment and care. These relationships may be with educational institutions, other health care providers, or insurers.
• To consent or decline to take part in research affecting your care. If you choose not to take part, you will receive the most effective care the hospital otherwise provides.
• To be told of realistic care alternatives when hospital care is no longer appropriate. We will be happy to assist in resolving dilemmas about care decisions.
• To know about hospital resources, such as patient representatives or ethics committees that can help you resolve problems and questions about your hospital stay and care.
• To unrestricted communication, however; if for therapeutic effectiveness it is restricted, you and your family have the right to be informed and to participate in the decision.
• To have your pain assessed and managed appropriately.
• To review and/or obtain a copy of the information contained in your medical record.
• To protection for your physical and emotional health and safety and security, free from abuse and harassment, and providing respect, dignity and comfort.
• To personal privacy during your admission and/or treatment and appropriate confidentiality, within the law, in the management of all records and information regarding your condition and treatment.
• To know the identity and professional status of those who provide care for you and to know what physician is primarily responsible for your care.
• To information about risks and hazards of treatment, and alternatives to the proposed treatment before giving informed consent, except in emergencies or as otherwise provided by the law. If you refuse a recommended treatment, you will receive other needed and available care.
• To be transferred to another facility at your request or when medically appropriate and legally permissible. You have a right to be given a complete explanation concerning the risks, benefits, and alternatives to such a transfer. The facility to which you will be transferred must first accept you as a patient.
• To be allowed to die with dignity, and to issue an Advance Directive, such as a living will or health care proxy. These documents express your choices, i.e., the withholding of resuscitative services, and foregoing or withdrawing of life sustaining treatments. If you have a written advance directive, you should provide a copy to the hospital, your family, and your doctor.
• To appoint a health care proxy to make health care decisions on your behalf in the event you lose the capacity to make decisions.
• To voice comments and/or complaints without fear of it affecting the care provided and to expect a prompt response
• To supportive care at the end of life and to participate in decisions regarding organ/tissue donor status.
• To protective services, ranging from counseling to full guardianship, including protection from exploitation, neglect or abuse. If you are unable to exercise these rights, your guardian, next of kin or legally authorized health care proxy has the right to exercise the rights listed above on your behalf.
• To be free from restraints / seclusion used in the provision of medical and surgical care unless clinically necessary.
• You have the right to pastoral and/or spiritual services.

Patient Responsibilities:

• You are responsible for providing information about your health, including past illnesses, hospital stays, and use of medicine.
• You are responsible for asking questions when you do not understand information or instructions.
• You are responsible for telling your doctor if you believe you can’t follow through with your treatment.
• You and your visitors are responsible for being considerate of the needs of other patients, staff, and the hospital.
• You are responsible for providing information for insurance and for working with the hospital to arrange payment when needed.
• You are responsible for recognizing the effect of life-style on your personal health.