Privacy

NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
Ray County Memorial Hospital is committed to safeguarding the privacy of the patient/client information and has implemented measures to comply with its obligations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for individually identifiable health information held by covered entities and their business associates and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information.

Ray County Memorial Hospital staff and personnel are required to maintain the privacy of your health information. We provide you with this notice as to our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to the information we collect and maintain on you, we will abide by this notice. We will notify you if we are unable to agree to a requested restriction. We will accommodate reasonable requests you have to communicate your health information by alternative means or at alternative locations. We will not use or disclose our health information without your authorization, except as described in this notice. In the event that there is a breach of unsecured PHI, we will notify you.

Our Notice of Privacy Practices provides a summary of your rights and our obligations relating to your health information