About Alice Peck Day Health Systems
We are dedicated to maintaining the privacy of your health information. In conducting our business, we may receive, create, use, or disclose individually identifiable health information regarding you and the treatments and services we provide to you. We are required by law to provide you with this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices concerning – more... your identifiable health information. By law, we must follow the terms of the notice of privacy practices that we have in effect at the time. To summarize, this notice provides you with the following important information:How we may use and disclose your identifiable health information Your privacy rights in your identifiable health information Our obligations concerning the use and disclosure of your identifiable health information How We May Use and Disclose Medical Information About YouThe following categories describe different ways that we may use and disclose your protected health information. Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed; however, all of the ways we are allowed to use and share information will fall into one of the categories. For Treatment: We may use medical information about you to provide you with medical treatment or services. We may disclose medical information about you to doctors, nurses, technologists, medical students, or other healthcare personnel who are helping us take care of you at APDMH. For example, a doctor treating you for a broken leg needs to know if you have diabetes, because diabetes can slow the healing process. In addition, the doctor will need to tell the dietitian if you have diabetes so we can prepare the right meals. Different departments of the hospital may also share medical information about you in order to coordinate the different things you need, such as prescriptions, lab work, or x-rays. We may also share medical information about you to people outside APDMH who may be involved in your medical care at home, such as family members, clergy, or others we use to provide services that are part of your care. Finally, if you are transferred or referred to another facility, we may send health information for your continued treatment. For Payment: We may use and share medical information about you so the treatment and services you receive here can be billed to, and payment collected from, an insurance company or a third party. For example, we will give your health plan information about services you had at APDMH so your health plan will pay us or reimburse you for the services. We may also tell your health plan about a your treatment plan in order to receive approval for the procedure, or to find out whether your plan will pay for the treatment. For Health Care Operations: We may use and disclose medical information about you for hospital operations. These uses and disclosures are necessary to run the hospital and make sure that all of our patients receive quality care. For example, we may use medical information to review our treatment and services and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you. We may also combine medical information about many hospital patients to decide what additional services the hospital should offer, what services are not needed, and whether certain treatments are effective. We may also disclose information to doctors, nurses, technologists, medical students, and other hospital personnel for review and learning purposes. Treatment Alternatives: We may use and disclose medical information to tell you about or recommend possible treatment options or alternatives that might be of interest to you. Marketing: We may use and disclose medical information about you to other hospital staff to make health-related information available to you. Our marketing and other departments may share your medical information among themselves and with other hospital staff members in order to provide services to you. We may also provide you with promotional items of nominal value. Fundraising: APDMH may use your demographic information to engage in fundraising activities. Some of these activities are new building projects, equipment, and new programs and services of the hospital. APDMH does not sell protected health information to outside organizations. You may receive information from APDMH. If you do not want to receive this information, contact the APDMH Development Office at 603-448-7429, send an e-mail to marketing@alicepeckday, or write us at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, Development Office, 125 Mascoma Street, Lebanon NH 03766. Please include your full name and address in all communications. Appointment Reminders: We may use and disclose medical information to contact you and remind you of an appointment. Hospital Directory: We may include limited information about you in the hospital directory while you are a patient in the hospital. This information includes your name and location in the hospital. The directory information may be released to people who ask for you by name. This is so your family, friends, and clergy can visit you in the hospital and know how you are doing. You have the right to object to the hospital's use of your information in the directory. If you object, please contact the chief privacy officer. – less – More from ZoomInfo »
