Advocacy Guidelines

Notice of Private Practices

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review our guidelines carefully.

Effective April 14, 2003

This notice will tell you how we may use and disclose protected health information about you. Protected health information means any health information about you that identifies you or for which there is a reasonable basis to believe the information can be used to identify you. In the header above, that information is referred to as “medical information.” In this notice, we simply call all of that protected health information, “health information.”

This notice also will tell you about your rights and our duties with respect to health information about you. In addition, it will tell you how to complain to us if you believe we have violated your privacy rights.

Click here to download a copy of the Advocacy Guidelines at First Step.