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HIPAA Statement:

 

 

Disclosures Relating to You or Your Family

· We may contact you to provide appointment reminders or information about treatment alternatives or other health related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.  For example, we may leave appointment reminders on your answering machine or with a family member or other person who may answer the telephone at the number that you have given us in order to contact you.

·  We may disclose your protected health information to your family or friends or any other individual identified by you when they are involved in your care or the payment for your care.  We will only disclose the protected health information directly relevant to their involvement in your care or payment.  We may also use or disclose your protected health information to notify, or assist in the notification of, a family member, a personal representative, or another person responsible for your care of your location, general condition or death.  If you are available, we will give you an opportunity to object to these disclosures, and we will not make these disclosures if you object.  If you are not available, we will determine whether a disclosure to your family or friends is in your best interest, and we will disclose only the protected health information that is directly relevant to their involvement in your care.

·  We will allow your family and friends to act on your behalf to pick up prescriptions, medical supplies, X-rays, and similar forms of protected health information, when we determine, in our professional judgment, that it is in your best interest to make such disclosures.