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Patient Rights & Responsibilities
You have the right to:
1. Considerate and respectful care, and to be made comfortable. You have the right to respect for your cultural, psychosocial, pastoral and spiritual needs, and your personal values, dignity, beliefs, and preferences.
2. Have a family member (or other representative of your choosing) and your own physician notified promptly of your admission to the hospital. Your family, as appropriate and as allowed by law, with your permission or your surrogate decision maker’s permission, can be involved in your care, treatment and service decisions.
3. Know the name of the physician who has primary responsibility for coordinating your care and the names and professional relationships of other physicians and non physicians who will see you.
4. Receive information about your health status, diagnosis, prognosis, course of treatment, prospects for recovery and outcomes of care (including unanticipated outcomes) in terms you can understand. You have the right to effective communication and for the assistance or provision of interpretation and translation services, as necessary. You have the right to have your needs with vision, speech, hearing, language and cognitive impairments addressed. You have the right to participate in the development and implementation of your plan of care. You have the right to participate in ethical questions that arise in the course of your care, including issues of conflict resolution, withholding resuscitative services, and forgoing or withdrawing life sustaining treatment.
5. Make decisions regarding medical care, and receive as much information about any proposed treatment or procedure as you may need in order to give informed consent or to refuse a course of treatment. Except in emergencies, this information shall include a description of the procedure or treatment, the medically significant risks involved, alternate courses of treatment or non treatment and the risks involved in each, and the name of the person who will carry out the procedure or treatment.
6. Request or refuse treatment, to the extent permitted by law. However, you do not have the right to demand inappropriate or medically unnecessary treatment or services. You have the right to leave the hospital even against the advice of physicians, to the extent permitted by law.
7. Be advised if the hospital/personal physician proposes to engage in or perform human experimentation affecting your care or treatment. You have the right to refuse to participate in such research projects.
8. Reasonable responses to any reasonable requests made for service.
9. Appropriate assessment and management of your pain, information about pain, pain relief measures and to participate in pain management decisions. You may request or reject the use of any or all modalities to relieve the pain, including opiate medication, if you suffer from severe chronic intractable pain. The doctor may refuse to prescribe opiate medication, but if so, must inform you that there are physicians who specialize in the treatment of severe chronic pain with methods that include the use of opiates.
10. Formulate advance directives. This includes designating a decision maker if you become incapable of understanding a proposed treatment or become unable to communicate your wishes regarding care. Hospital staff and practitioners who provide care in the hospital shall comply with these directives. All patients’ rights apply to the person who has legal responsibility to make decisions regarding medical care on your behalf.
11. Have personal privacy respected. Case discussion, consultation, examination and treatment are confidential and should be conducted discreetly. You have the right to be told the reason for the presence of any individual. You have the right to have visitors leave prior to an examination and when treatment issues are being discussed. Privacy curtains will be used in semi-private rooms. You have the right to have private telephone conversations.
12. Confidential treatment of all communications and records pertaining to your care and stay in the hospital. You will receive a separate “Notice of Privacy Practices” that explains your privacy rights in detail and how we may use and disclose your protected health information.
13. Have a safe and secure environment for yourself and your property and to be free from mental, physical, sexual or verbal abuse and neglect, exploitation or harassment. You have the right to access protective and advocacy services including notifying government agencies of neglect or abuse.
14. Be free from restraints and seclusion of any form used as a means of coercion, discipline, convenience or retaliation by staff.
15. Reasonable continuity of care and to know in advance the time and location of appointments as well as the identity of the persons providing the care.
16. Be informed by the physician, or a delegate of the physician, of continuing health care requirements following discharge from the hospital. You have the right to be involved in the development and implementation of your discharge plan. Upon your request, a friend or family member may be provided with this information also.
17. Know which hospital rules and policies apply to your conduct while a patient.
18. Designate visitors of your choosing, if you have decision-making capacity, whether or not the visitor is related by blood or marriage, unless:
- No visitors are allowed.
- The facility reasonably determines that the presence of a particular visitor
would endanger the health or safety of a patient, a member of the health
facility staff or other visitor to the health facility, or would significantly
disrupt the operations of the facility.
- You have told the health facility staff that you no longer want a particular
person to visit.
However, a health facility may establish reasonable restrictions upon visitation, including restrictions upon the hours of visitation and number of visitors.
19. Have your wishes considered, if you lack decision-making capacity, for the purposes of determining who may visit. The method of that consideration will be disclosed in the hospital policy on visitation. At a minimum, the hospital shall include any persons living in your household.
20. Examine and receive an explanation of the hospital’s bill regardless of the source of payment.
21. Exercise these rights without regard to sex, economic status, educational background, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation or marital status or the source of payment for care.
22. File a grievance. If you want to file a grievance with this hospital, you may do so by writing or calling: Hoag Hospital Patient Relations, P.O. Box 6100 Newport Beach, CA 92658-6100; telephone 949/764-8220
The grievance committee will review each grievance and provide you with a written response within seven days. The written response will contain the name of the person to contact at the hospital, the steps taken to investigate the grievance, the results of the grievance process, and the date of completion of the grievance process. Concerns regarding quality of care or premature discharge will also be referred to the appropriate Utilization and Quality Control Peer Review Organization (PRO). For Medicare grievances, you may also contact Lumetra, Inc., One Sansome Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94104-4448.
23. File a complaint with the state Department of Health Services regardless of whether you use the hospital’s grievance process. The state Department of Health Service’s phone number and address is: Department of Health Services, 2150 Town Centre Place, Ste. 210, Anaheim, CA 92806; telephone 800/228-5234. You can also file a complaint with The Joint Commission Office of Quality Monitoring at One Renaissance Blvd., Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181, 800/994-6610, 630/792-5636 (fax), complaint@jointcommission.org.
Patient Responsibilities
As a patient, you have the following responsibilities:
- To provide complete and accurate information about present complaints, past illnesses, hospitalizations, medications, advance directives and other matters relating to your health.
- To ask questions when you do not understand information or instructions.
- To follow the instructions and treatment plan recommended by your physician and healthcare team.
- To report changes in your condition to your physician or a member of your healthcare team as soon as possible.
- To be involved in your own care, including plans for pain control and discharge planning.
- To tell your doctor if you believe you cannot follow through with your plan of care or treatment.
- To accept the consequences for the outcomes if you do not follow instructions for care and service plan or if you refuse treatment.
- To follow the hospital’s rules and regulations affecting patient care and conduct.
- To be considerate of the rights of other patients and hospital staff, and to respect the property of other persons and the hospital.
- To provide accurate and timely information concerning your sources of payments and to work with the hospital to meet your financial commitments, when needed.
- To provide a copy of your written advance directive, if you have completed one.
Hoag Hospital is a smoke-free facility. Smoking is prohibited in the hospital and on hospital grounds. There are no designated smoking areas.
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