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This is a contract between you and the hospital, which is the "Website Administrator" of this Website. TOS Date: February 24, 2014 To become an Authorized User (also referred to in this TOS as "you" or "your"), you requested access to this private communication network and website (the "Website") and the use of its content, including messages communicated with other Authorized Users (the "Content".) The Website Administrator is also referred to below as "we," "us," or "our."As a condition of using access to the Website, you acknowledge have read and agree to all of the following: 1. Authorized User. You are an "Authorized User" if as a member of the credentialed medical staff of the hospital you responded in the affirmative to the hospital's offer of grant of access to this website and, accordingly, have requested and been duly provisioned by the hospital with a unique User ID and password permitting access to this website. 2. Compliance with Law and your Agreement. This TOS permits you to access and use the website and its Content only in accordance with the hospital medical staff rules and bylaws, subject to the terms and conditions herein, and in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. 3. Appropriate use. (a) The Website is a private network and it may not be accessed nor the Content used by patients or members of the general public. Only Authorized Users are permitted to use the Website and the Content. Unless you are an Authorized User, it is a violation of state and federal law to access the private computer network of another, such as the Website. Use of the User ID and password of another person is not permitted and does grant you the status of an "Authorized User" for purposes of accessing the Website or using its Content. (b) You may not, without express prior written permission of the Website Administrator, do any of the following while accessing or using the Website: (a) use areas of the Website that are technologically off-limits to Authorized Users, or tamper with the computer or delivery systems of the Website and/or its service providers; (b) probe, scan, or test any system or network (particularly for vulnerabilities), or otherwise attempt to breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures; (c) access or search or attempt to access or search the Website by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through functions made available to Authorized Users; (d) scrape Content from the Website; (e) use the Website to send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information, including without limitation by forging TCP-IP packet headers or email headers; or (f) interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any other Authorized User, or any host or network, including, without limitation, by sending a virus to, spamming, or overloading the Website, or by scripted use of the Website in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the Website or the technology supporting it. 4. Security. This Website has reasonable security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under our control. These measures include encryption of personal information using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) system during your log-in session, and using a secured messaging service when we send you personal information electronically. Despite these measures, the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to or from the Website by Internet or e-mail cannot be guaranteed. You should access the Website only from a computer that you know is secure and that has appropriate anti-virus software running. At your discretion, you may contact us at the hospital medical staff office. If you have privacy or data security related questions, please feel free to use the "Contact Us" to message the Website Administrator or your medical staff office. 5. Information available. This Website does not allow Authorized Users to view treatment-related information about their patients, but it may contain related aggregate information. If so, such information is deemed part of the Content and confidential information of the hospital and Authorized Users agree to protect it as such. 6. No Disclosure of your User ID and password. You will not share your User ID and password with anybody. Please note, to avoid "social engineering" and other "phishing" and scamming efforts, you will never be requested by the hospital medical staff office or Website support personnel to share your User ID or password via email or telephone. 7. Right to revoke User ID and password. A User ID and password permitting access to the Website is a privilege that may be revoked at any time by the Website Administrator in his or her sole discretion. 8. Responsibility for User ID and password. You are solely responsible for any activities related to your User ID and password. You are required to immediately report to the medical staff office any loss, disclosure or inappropriate access to your Website account, User ID or password, treatment-related information or patient-related file, reports, or other confidential Content to which you or another person should not have access or when you suspect such or the likelihood of such. 9. Delivery of Information. Information and messages provided via the Website are deemed delivered to you and in your possession when available for viewing. When the Website is available, you may access the Website at any time of day. As a courtesy, but not an obligation, the Website Administrator may provide Authorized Users with out-of-band-alerts, using other means of communication, such as SMS/texts and email. Such alerts will never contain PHI. 10. Information accuracy / malicious code. Although we attempt to ensure the integrity and accurateness of the Website, we make no guarantees as to its correctness or accuracy. It is possible that the Website could include typographical errors, inaccuracies, or other errors, and that unauthorized additions, deletions, and alterations could be made to the Website by third parties. In the event that an inaccuracy arises, you agree to contact the Website Administrator immediately so that it can be corrected. The Website Administrator will have no liability related to the content of any such communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. You also understand that the Website Administrator cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that data, files, and reports and other Content available for downloading through the Website will be free of infection or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You will have appropriate anti-virus software as provided in No. 5, Security, above. You are also responsible for implementing sufficient procedures to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to the Website for the reconstruction of any lost data. The Website Administrator does not assume any responsibility or risk for your use of the Website. 11. Utilization information. To insure on-going compliance with law, and the security and integrity of the Website and the Content, the Website Administrator may, but is not obligated to, monitor, record and audit any activities related to your Website session. Nevertheless, you should not and cannot rely on such monitoring, recording, or auditing to electronically prohibit inappropriate use of your user ID or password. 12. Website improvements. The Website Administrator may also make improvements and/or changes to the Website at any time without notice. The Website Administrator retains the right to remove, at its sole discretion, communications and other Content that include any material deemed abusive, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate, which, in any event, you agree to not upload or input into the Website. 13. Logout. You shall always log out of the Website before departing from your computer. 14. Minimum requirements. You may access the Website at any time, provided your computer is running Windows XP or later, and IE Explorer 8.0 or higher or current versions of other broadly used website browsers, Adobe Reader/Professional 7.0 or higher. 2GB of computer RAM is recommended. You are solely responsible for keeping your computer secure, including updating it and its applications with required upgrades, updates and security patches available from third parties. 15. Wireless. If you access the Website using a wireless device, you are solely responsible for the security of the session, except that the Website Administrator is responsible for implementing secure socket layer encryption during your session once you are logged into the Website. 16. Website unavailability. There may be times when the Website is unavailable due to technical errors or for maintenance and support activities. The Website Administrator shall make reasonable efforts to limit such activities to off-peak hours. 17. HIPAA Obligations. You acknowledge that you are a separate and independent Covered Entity as such term is defined under HIPAA. 18. Sensitive and personal information obligations. PHI is very confidential data under HIPAA and state privacy laws. Accordingly, you will take all reasonable steps to protect it as required under HIPAA and other applicable laws. You agree to comply with all state and federal laws governing access to and use of sensitive or personal information, including but not limited to the use of any social security numbers that may be in the Content. You agree that you are receiving the patients social security number only for purposes of supporting your treatment of the patient and you will not use the patient's social security number for any other purpose. Furthermore, you will not access the Website or the Content by means of "screen scraping" or the use of a botnet or otherwise electronically interface with it to automatically populate another database or record system. 19. Notification obligations. You are solely responsible for notifying patients of any inappropriate or unauthorized access related to your User ID and password when such notification is required by law. 20. Remedies. You acknowledge that any violation of this TOS could result in irreparable harm, the damages for which are incalculable. You agree that in the case of a breach of this TOS, that we shall have every remedy available at law, including immediate injunctive relief. 21. Indemnification. You are responsible for all activities related to your User ID and password. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold the Website Administrator, its directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from damages and injuries, both tangible and intangible, related to the use of your User ID and password, or a failure to comply with this TOS. 22. Website Provided "AS IS". THE WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT AND SITE-RELATED SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITH ALL FAULTS, WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, SITE-RELATED SERVICES, AND HYPERLINKED WEBSITES. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY THE WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR OR ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY NOR IN ANY WAY INCREASE THE SCOPE OF THIS WARRANTY. SOME JURISDICTONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO THIS MAY NOT BE FULLY APPLICABLE TO YOU. 23. Limitation on Liability. DIGNITY HEALTH, THE HOSPITAL AND THE WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR (COLLECTIVELY THE "ORGANIZATIONS"), THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, AND OTHER THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED ON THIS WEBSITE ARE NEITHER RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS, LOST OR UNAVAILABLE DATA, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO ORGANIZATIONS, THE WEBSITE, CONTENT OR INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THE WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY AND WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH ORGANIZATIONS WEBSITE-RELATED SERVICES, AND/OR HYPERLINKED WEBSITES IS TO STOP USING THE WEBSITE, THE CONTENT AND/OR THOSE SERVICES. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF THE ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR AFFILIATES, FOR ANY CLAIM UNDER THIS tos, INCLUDING FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS (US $100.00) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US TO USE THE wEBSITE. 24. Website Ownership. Except as otherwise indicated, the Content, including text, graphics, logos, button icons, photos, images, forms, audio, video, questionnaires, "look and feel" and software, is the property of the Website Administrator and/or its licensors and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on Website, other than content uploaded or created by you, is the exclusive property of Website Administrator and/or its licensors and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. Unless specifically authorized in writing by Website Administrator, any use of the Content by an Authorized User to benefit a third party, or on any other website or networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. Copyright 2024, Website Administrator. All rights reserved for all countries. Any rights not expressly granted by these terms and conditions or any applicable end-user license agreements are reserved by the Website Administrator. An Authorized User may save or print only those aspects of the Content intended for saving or printing, provided such action is solely for the personal, non-public use of the Authorized User. Permission to reprint or electronically reproduce any document or graphic in whole or in part for any other reason is expressly prohibited, unless prior written consent is obtained from the copyright holder(s). 25. License of an Authorized User Content to Website Administrator: When you upload or create content through or in the Website you are providing it to other Authorized Users and the Website Administrator. Accordingly, you agree you are granting the Website Administrator a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable right and license to use, host, store, cache, reproduce, publish, display (publicly or otherwise), perform (publicly or otherwise), distribute, transmit, modify, adapt (including, without limitation, in order to conform it to the requirements of any networks, devices, services, or media through which the Website is available), and create derivative works of, such Content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purposes of allowing the Website Administrator to operate the Website in accordance with its functionality, improve the Website services and Content, and develop new functionality and services for you and others. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you will always be the owner of your content that you create and upload to the Website. Also, if you communicate a message via the Website only to another Authorized User and not for general viewing by all Authorized Users, it will not be posted for general viewing. Please note, however, that this license grant from you to the Content you upload continues even if you stop using the Website, primarily because of the social nature of the Content shared through a shared website - when you post something to a group others may choose to comment on it or the recipient of a message may make a copy, making your Content part of a social conversation that can't later be erased without retroactively censoring the speech of others. You also agree that you will respect the intellectual property rights of others, and represent and warrant that you have all of the necessary rights to grant us this license for all Content you transfer or upload to the Website. 26. Trademarks. 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Binding Arbitration and Waiver of Right to Trail. (a) Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your access to and use of the Website will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than trial by jury, except that you may make claims in small claims court if your claims qualify and we may bring suit in court to enjoin infringement or other misuse of our intellectual property rights or to protect the privacy rights of another individual. (b) You are agreeing to waive your right to trial by jury, and we are agreeing to waive our right to trial by jury (except to the extent expressly stated in the "Binding Arbitration" provision above). (c) There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages), and must follow this TOS as a court would. (d) To begin an arbitration proceeding, you must send a letter requesting arbitration and describing your claim to our address as posted on the Website, Attention: General Counsel. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (referred to as "AAA") under its rules, including the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes. The AAA's rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's rules. We will reimburse those fees for claims totaling less than $250.00 unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. Likewise, we will not to seek attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. You or we may choose to have the arbitration conducted by telephone, based on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live or at another mutually agreed location. 28. Waiver of Right to Bring a Claim as Part of a Class Action. YOU AGREE WITH US THAT ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS ACTION, CONSOLIDATED ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. IF, FOR ANY REASON, ANY CLAIM PROCEEDS IN COURT RATHER THAN IN ARBITRATION, YOU AGREE WITH US TO ONLY BRING YOUR CLAIM ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT AS PART OF A CLASS ACTION, CONSOLIDATED ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. BY AGREEING TO THE ABOVE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO WAIVE ANY RIGHTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE TO BRING CLAIMS IN A CLASS ACTION, CONSOLIDATED ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION 29. Entire TOS and Assignment. This TOS and the medical staff rules and bylaws constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding this Website and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding the subject matter hereof. If any provision of this TOS is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this TOS shall otherwise remain enforceable and in full force and effect. You acknowledge that you may not assign any of your rights, interests, duties, or obligations under this TOS. Any attempted or purported assignment shall be null and void. 30. Hyperlinks. Any reference made to specific products or services on the Website does not constitute or imply a recommendation or endorsement by the Website Administrator unless it is specifically stated. To provide you with additional resources, the Website may contain hyperlinks to other of our services and those of our affiliates. However, unless we state otherwise, providing an external link does not imply it may be of benefit to you or that its products and services or those it describes are endorsed by us. Such links may be provided as merely information only, for your further investigation. We will make reasonable efforts to ascertain that linked sites abide by appropriate ethical standards of conduct. While we do select the sites we link to with care, we do not vouch for or assume responsibility for the material, services or products contained on those sites or their privacy practices. You are advised to consult the privacy statement of each website you visit. External health-related services to which the Website may link must meet all of the following criteria:
We re-evaluate at least annually all external health-related services to which we link. The Website Administrator does not accept payment for advertising from any source. 31. TOS updates. The Website Administrator reserves the right to modify this TOS and the documents identified in this TOS. Such modifications shall be binding on you upon reasonable online notice thereof, or by emailing a copy to the last email address you provided to the Website Administrator, and your continued use of an active or valid User ID and password to log into the Website is deemed your agreement to be contractually bound by such revisions. The date of the most recent update will be clearly posted at the top of this TOS. We encourage you to periodically re-read this TOS, to see if there have been any changes to our policies that may affect you. + Copyright The Website Services (or any portion of the Website Services) and all of the Content (excluding your User Content) including, text, graphics, logos, button icons, photos, images, forms, audio, video, questionnaires, "look and feel" and software, is the property of us or our licensors, and are protected by United States and international copyright laws. Except as provided in the next paragraph, you are expressly prohibited from reproducing, duplicating, copying, publishing, selling or otherwise exploiting for any commercial purpose the Content, in whole or in part, for any reason, unless prior written consent is obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copyright 1996 to 2024. All rights reserved for all countries. You may use and view the Content for your personal use only, provided that such view and use is either within the Website Services or by manually downloading or printing certain of the Content. Any automated process or use of a bot for this purpose is strictly prohibited. Unless specifically authorized in writing by us, any other use of the Content, other than your User Content, is expressly prohibited. Otherwise, permission to reprint or electronically reproduce any document or graphic in whole or in part for any reason is expressly prohibited, unless prior written consent is obtained from the copyright holder(s). Any rights not expressly granted by these terms and conditions or any applicable end-user license agreements are reserved by us. + Notice of Information Practice (Arizona Only) + Patient Privacy Notice Joint Notice of Privacy Practices for Medical InformationTHIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY. WHO MUST FOLLOW THIS NOTICE? We(the facility) provide you (the patient) with health care by working with doctors and many other health care providers (referred to as we, our or us). This is a joint notice of our information privacy practices. The following people or groups will follow this notice:
OUR PLEDGE TO YOU We understand that medical information about you is private and personal. We are committed to protecting it. Hospitals, doctors and other staff make a record each time you visit. This notice applies to the records of your care at the facility, whether created by hospital staff or your doctor. Your doctor and other health care providers may have different practices or notices about their use and sharing of medical information in their own offices or clinics. We will gladly explain this notice to you or your family member. We are required by law to:
HOW WE MAY USE AND SHARE YOUR MEDICAL INFORMATION This section of our notice tells how we may use medical information about you. In all cases not covered by this notice, we will get a separate written permission from you before we use or share your medical information. We will ask you for permission in writing before we use or share your medical information for any of the following reasons:
You can later cancel your permission by notifying us in writing. We will protect medical information as much as we can under the law.Sometimes state law gives more protection to medical information than federal law. Sometimes federal law gives more protection than state law. In each case, we will apply the laws that protect medical information the most. Dignity Health is a large health system. We may use or share medical information about you (in electronic or paper form) with hospital personnel, including doctors, at any Dignity Health hospital or facility for treatment, payment and health care operations. Please contact the Facility Compliance Office (at the address at the bottom of the notice) for a list of all Dignity Health facilities. EXAMPLES: Treatment: We will use and share medical information about you for purposes oftreatment. An example is sending medical information about you to your doctor or to a specialist as part of a referral. Payment: We will use and share medical information about you so we can be paid for treating you. An example is giving information about you to your health plan or to Medicare. Health Care Operations: We will use and share medical information about you for our health care operations. Examples are using information about you to improve the quality of care we give you, for disease management programs, patient satisfaction surveys, compiling medical information, de-identifying medical information and benchmarking. Appointment Reminders: We may contact you with appointment reminders.
Internet Based Products and Services: Working with third party, we may offer you internet based products or services allowing you to
Treatment options and health-related benefits and services: We may contact you about possible treatment options, health-related benefits or services that you might want. Fund-raising Activities: We may use limited information to contact you for fundraising. We may also share such information with our fundraising foundation. You may choose to opt out of receiving fund-raising requests or contacts. Research:We may share medical information about you for research projects, such as studying the effectiveness of a treatment you received. We will usually get your written permission to use or share medical information for research. Under certain circumstances we may share medical information about you without your written permission. These research projects, however, must go through a special process that protects the confidentiality of your medical information. Facility Directory: Unless you tell us otherwise, we may list your name, location in the hospital, your general condition (good, fair, etc.) and your religious affiliation in our directory. We will give this information (except your religious affiliation) to anyone who asks about you by name. Your religious affiliation will be given only to appropriate clergy members. Public Health: We may disclose your health information as required or permitted by law to public health authorities or government agencies whose official activities include preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability. For example, we must report certain information about births, deaths, and various diseases to government agencies. We may use your health information in order to report to monitoring agencies any reactionsto medications or problems with medical devices. We may also disclose, when requested, information about you to public health agencies that track outbreaks of contagious diseases or that are involved with preventing epidemics. Required by Law: We are sometimes required by law to report certain information. For example, we must report assault, abuse, or neglect. We also must give information to your employer about work-related illness, injury or workplace-related medical surveillance. Another example is that we will share information about tumors with state tumor registries. Public Safety: We may, and sometimes have to share medical information about you in order to prevent or lessen a serious threat to the health or safety of a particular person or the general public. Health Oversight Activities: We may share medical information about you for health oversight activities where allowed by law. For example, oversight activities include audits investigations or inspections. The activities are necessary for government review of health care systems and government programs. Coroners, Medical Examiners and Funeral Directors: We may share medical information about deceased patients with coroners, medical examiners and funeral directors to identify a deceased person, determine the cause of death, or other duties as permitted. Organ and Tissue Donation: We may share medical information with organizations that handle organ, eye or tissue donation or transplantation. Military, Veterans, National Security and Other Government Agencies: We may use or share medical information about you for national security purposes, intelligence activities or for protective services of the President or certain other persons as allowed by law. We may share medical information about you with the military for military command purposes when you are a member of the armed forces. We may share medical information with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for investigating or determining our compliance with HIPAA. Judicial Proceedings: We may use or share medical information about you in response to court orders or subpoenas only when we have followed procedures required by law. Law Enforcement Arizona & Nevada: We may share medical information about you with police or other law enforcement personnel where permitted or required by state and federal law. For example, if the police present a search warrant or court order, we must produce the information requested. Law Enforcement California: We may share medical information about you with police (or other law enforcement personnel) without your written permission:
Family Members, Personal Representative, and Others Involved in Your Care: Unless you tell us otherwise, we may share medical information about you with friends, family members, or others you have named who help with your care or who can make decisions on your behalf about your healthcare . Disaster Relief Purposes: We may use or share medical information about you with public or private disaster organizations so that your family can be notified of your location and condition in case of disaster or other emergency. We may also use it to help in coordination of disaster relief efforts. Electronic Sharing and Pooling of Your Information: We may take part in or make possible the electronic sharing or pooling of healthcare information. This helps doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers within a geographic area or community provide quality care to you. If you travel and need medical treatment, it allows other doctors or hospitals to electronically contact us about you. All of this helps us manage your care when more than one doctor is involved. It also helps us to keep your health bills lower (avoid repeating lab tests). And finally it helps us to improve the overall quality of care provided to you and others. We are involved in the Affordable Care Act and may use and share information as permitted to achieve national goals related to meaningful use of electronic health systems. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING MEDICAL INFORMATION Requesting Information about You: In most cases, when you ask in writing, you can look at or get a copy of medical information about you in paper or electronic format. You may also request that we send electronic copies directly to a person or entity chosen by you. We will give you a form to fill out to make the request. You can look at medical information about you for free. If you request paper or electronic copies of the information we may charge a fee. If we say no to your request to look at the information or get a copy of it, you may ask us in writing for a review of that decision. Correcting Information about You: If you believe that information about you is wrong or missing, you can ask us in writing to correct the records. We will give you a form to fill out to make the request. We may say no to your request to correct a record if the information was not created or kept by us or if we believe the record is complete and correct. If we say no to your request, you can ask us in writing to review that denial. Obtaining a List of Certain Disclosures of Information: You can ask to receive a list of the disclosures we have made of your medical information for the last six years. Your request must be in writing and state the time period for the listing. The first request in a 12-month period is free. We will charge you for any additional requests for our cost of producing the list. We will give you an estimate of the cost when you request the additional list. Restricting How We Use or Share Information about You: You can ask that medical information be given to you in a confidential manner. You must tell us in writing of the exact way or place for us to communicate with you. You also can ask in writing that we limit our use or sharing of medical information about you. For example, you can ask that we use or share medical information about you only with persons involved in your care. Any time you make a written request, we will consider the request and tell you in writing of our decision to accept or deny your request. We are legally required to agree to only one type of restriction request: if you have paid us in full for a health procedure or item for which we would normally bill your health plan, we must agree to your request not to share information about that procedure or item with your health plan.
All written requests or requests for review of denials should be given to our Facility Compliance Office listed at the end of this notice. CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE We may change our privacy practices from time to time. Changes will apply to current medical information, as well as new information after the change occurs. If we make an important change, we will change our notice. We will also post the new notice in our facilities and on our Web site at: www.DignityHealth.org/privacy. You can ask in writing for a copy of this notice at any time by contacting the Dignity Health Compliance Office. If our notice has changed, we will give you a copy of the notice the next time you register for treatment. DO YOU HAVE CONCERNS OR COMPLAINTS? If you think your privacy rights may have been violated, you may contact the Dignity Health Compliance Office Hotline at 800-443-1986 or by email at privacy.office@dignityhealth.org. Finally, you may send a written complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights. Our Facility Compliance Office can provide you the address. We will not take any action against you for filing a complaint. Dignity Health Compliance Office
Version effective: May 2015
+ State False Claims Act + Website Privacy Notice
+ General Website Privacy Statement
+ Conflicts of Interest
This Website Privacy Notice, which is part of our Terms of Service (TOS), describes how we protect your privacy as a user of our Website Services. We do not knowingly interact with patients who may be accessing or using these Website Services. Neither do we knowingly interact with minors. We do not sell or rent personally identifiable information received through your use of these Web Services. We share such information with third parties who are assisting us in providing these Web Services and then only under written obligations of confidentiality. The Website Services have security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of personally identifiable information under our control. Such measures include encryption of data during communication using 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and using a secured messaging service when we communicate personally identifiable information between your electronic device and the Website Services. Even with these measures, the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to or from us via the Website Services by Internet or e-mail cannot be guaranteed. At your discretion, you may contact us at the Contact Us link at the top of this webpage. If you have privacy or data security related questions, please feel free to contact the office identified at the end of this Website Privacy Notice. + Types of Consumer Data Collected and Used Site Visitor data Collecting and using personal information Web logs
To help us manage the Website Services, we maintain standard web logs that record data about visitors and customers who use this site and we store this information for a while. These logs may contain the Internet domain from which you access the site (such as aol.com, abc.org, etc.); the IP address which is automatically assigned to your computer when you get on the Internet (a static IP address may be identifiable as being connected to you, while a dynamic address is usually not identifiable); the type of browser and operating system you use; the date and time you visited the site; the pages you viewed on the site; the address of the website you linked from, if any. If you sign on to Website Services to use our secured features, our web logs will also contain an individual identifier and show the services you have accessed. All web logs are stored securely and may only be accessed by our personnel supporting our Website Services. We web log information to help us better design for you various aspects of our Website Service, to identify popular features, to resolve user, hardware, and software problems, and to make the Website Services generally more useful to visitors. + Use of Email We may use a third-party vendor to help us manage some of our e-mail communications with you. While such a vendor may have access to email addresses, the vendor may never use them for any purpose other than to support our communication with you on our behalf. When you click on a link in an e-mail, you may temporarily be redirected through one of the vendor's servers (although this process will be invisible to you) which will register that you've clicked on that link, and have visited our Website Services or opened our email to you. Even if you have given us permission to send e-mails to you, you may revoke that permission at any time by following the "unsubscribe" information at the bottom of each such e-mail. If you have separately opted into or subscribed to different services on our Website Services and you subsequently wish to unsubscribe, you may need to also separately opt-out out of each service. + Use of Data related to evaluation of the Website Services
We will periodically ask users to complete surveys asking about their experiences with features of the Web site. Our surveys ask visitors for demographic information such as age, gender, and education, but will not request in such surveys that users provide specific information about any medical condition. We use survey information for research and quality improvement purposes, including helping us to improve information and services offered through the Website Services. In addition, users giving feedback may be individually contacted for follow-up due to concerns raised during the course of such evaluation. Demographic information and web log data may be stored for future research and evaluation. + Messages and transactions
Comments or questions sent to us using e-mail or secure messaging forms will be shared with our staff to address your concerns. We will archive your messages once we have made an effort to provide you with a complete and satisfactory response. + Credit card transactions If you provide us with your credit card number for donation, purchase or other payments, we will treat your credit card number in a secure manner. But your credit card number should never be entered into an unsecured webpage - a webpage is not secure if the URL or domain name does not begin with https://_________/ Not all webpages on the Website Services are intended to be secure, such as those that do not have input forms. Only provide a credit card number in the input box that we specifically designate. + No Children or Minors
We do not knowingly allow or solicit anyone under the age of 18 to access or use the Website Services. + Disclosures We may disclose personal information to any person or entity performing audit, legal, operational, or other services for us. We will use information which does not identify the individual for these activities whenever feasible. Personal information disclosed to vendors or contractors for our operational purposes may not be re-disclosed to others by such a vendor or contractor. We may disclose personal information when required to do so by a subpoena, court order, or search warrant. We may disclose personal information as we deem it appropriate to protect the safety of an individual or for an investigation related to public safety or to report an activity that appears to be in violation of law. We may disclose personal information to protect the security and reliability of the Website Services and to take precautions against liability. + Opt-out If you make a request to receive information in an ongoing manner through the Website Services by providing your e-mail address (for example, requesting a subscription to one of our online publications), you can request to discontinue future mailings. Similarly, if you receive information about the Website Services through e-mail, you may make a request to discontinue receiving similar messages in the future. All such materials sent to you by e-mail will contain information about how to opt out. + CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE We may change our privacy practices from time to time. Changes will apply to current information about you, as well as new information after the change occurs. + QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THIS WEBSITE PRIVACY NOTICE You may contact the Dignity Health Privacy Office Hotline as follows: Telephone: 800-443-1986 Fax: 415-591-6279 Email: privacy.office@dignityhealth.org
+ POLICY
+ Accessibility
It is the position of Dignity Health that participants in the review and
conduct of research in Dignity Health facilities must disclose actual and
potential conflicts of interest in order to assure the integrity and quality of
both the review process and the conduct of the research, to protect human
research subjects and to comply with law. Click here to download and view a PDF document of the full policy.
+ Notice Regarding Access to Public Accommodations and Removal of Barriers
Notice Regarding Access to Dignity Health has undertaken an effort to remove barriers to access throughout Dignity Health's hospitals.The effort has been undertaken as part of the settlement of a class action civil complaint filed by individuals with mobility, vision and hearing impairments who filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California in 2006.The lawsuit alleges that persons with disabilities encountered barriers to access within Dignity Health facilities.In order to resolve the lawsuit and improve the access to Dignity Health services for persons with such disabilities, Dignity Health has agreed to take the following actions: ADA REPORTING HOTLINE: 1-800-938-0031 + Website Accessibility We are committed to ensuring that our site is accessible to all users. We have attempted to implement features to improve the experience for individuals with disabilities. Some of these features are described below.
If you encounter any problems accessing this site, for help please call us at (844) 274-8497. |