As a patient, you have the right to:

• Considerate, respectful care at all times and under all circumstances with recognition of your personal dignity.
• Personal and informational privacy, within the law.
• Information concerning your diagnosis, treatment and prognosis to the degree that it is known.
• Confidentiality of records and disclosures. Except when required by law, you have the right to approve or refuse the release of your records.
• The opportunity to participate in decisions involving your health care, unless contraindicated by concerns for your health.
• Impartial treatment regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, handicap or disability.
• Know the identity and professional status of individuals providing care to you.
• Report any comments concerning the quality of care provided during your stay on the patient satisfaction survey. These comments are reviewed by the Management Team.

As a patient, you are responsible for:

• Providing to the best of your knowledge, accurate and complete information about your present health status and past medical history and reporting any unexpected changes to the appropriate care-givers.
• Following the treatment plan as recommended by your surgeon.
• Providing a responsible adult to transport you to and from the surgery center and to care for you at home in accordance with your post-operative and post-surgery center plan of care.
• Your actions if you refuse treatment, leave the facility against the advice of the practitioner, and/or do not follow the practitioner’s instructions relating to your care.
• Assuring that your financial information that you provide is accurate and that any financial obligation relating to your care will be fulfilled in an expedient manner.
• Providing us with information about and/or with copies of any living will, power of attorney or other directives that you desire us to know about. It is the surgery center’s belief that if you enter our facility for outpatient surgery, if necessary, we will exhaust all means to preserve the life entrusted to our care.

If you have any questions regarding your responsibilities, please discuss your concerns with us.