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At Atracare, we believe every patient has the right to:
1. Honest, considerate and respectful care. You have the right to respect for your cultural, spiritual, and personal values, beliefs and preferences.
2. Have a family member (or other representative of your choosing) and your own physician notified of your visit to Aspira Health.
3. Know the name of the licensed health care practitioner acting within the scope of his or her professional licensure who has the primary responsibility of coordinating your care, and the names and professional relationships of 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 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, alternative courses of treatment or nontreatment 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 center even against the advice of members of the medical staff, to the extent permitted by law.
7. Be advised if the licensed health care practitioner acting within the scope of his or her professional licensure 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 pain, including opiate medication, if you suffer from severe chronic intractable pain. The doctor may refuse to prescribe the opiate medication, but if so, must inform you that there are physicians who specialize in the treatment of 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. Aspira Health staff and practitioners who provide care in the center 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.
12. Confidential treatment of all communications and records pertaining to your care. 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. Receive care in a safe setting, 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, and/or convenience.
15. Reasonable continuity of care, and to be provided a list of referrals.
16. Be informed by the physician, or a delegate of the physician, of continuing health care requirements and options following discharge from Aspira Health. 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 this information also.
17. Know which Aspira Health rules and policies apply to your conduct while a patient.
18. Designate a support person as well as visitors of your choosing, if you have decision-making capacity, whether or not the visitor is related by blood, marriage, or registered domestic partner status, unless, the Clinician reasonably determines that the presence of a particular visitor would endanger the health or safety of a patient, a member of the Aspira Health, or other visitor to the center, or would significantly disrupt the operations of the facility. Aspira Health is not permitted to restrict, limit, or otherwise deny visitation privileges on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
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 comply with federal and state law. At a minimum, Aspira Health shall include any persons living in your household and any support person pursuant to federal law.
20. Examine and receive an explanation of the Aspira Health’s charges/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, gender identity/expression, disability, medical condition, marital status, age, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, citizenship, primary language, immigration status (except as required by federal law) or the source of payment for care.
22. File a grievance. If you want to file a grievance with this Aspira Health you may do so by writing or by calling (Dr. William Albanese III): Aspira will review each grievance and provide you with a written response within 10 days. The written response will contain the name of a person to contact at the Aspira Health, the steps taken to investigate the grievance, the results of the grievance process, and the date of completion of the grievance process.
23. If you choose, you have the right to contact the Delaware Office of Health Facilities Licensing and Certification at (302) 283-7220 or 1-(800) 942-7373, 258 Chapman Road, Chopin Building, Suite 101, Newark, DE 19702. File a complaint regarding any “unprofessional conduct” as defined by the Delaware Code Title 24 Chapter 17 of any licensed healthcare practitioner with the Delaware Department of State: Division of Professional Regulations at 302/744-4500 or completing the Statement of Complaint online at customerservice.dpr@state.de.us
24. File a grievance with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, by mail or phone at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Ave. SW Room 509F HHH Building Washington DC 20201, 1-800-368-1019 or electronically at https://ocrportal.hhsgov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf if you believe Aspira Health has discriminated against you on the basis of race, color, age, disability, sex, religion and exercise of conscience.
