Understanding your Health Information:

Each time you visit a hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider, a record of your visit is made in order to manage the care you receive. The Texas Health Resources (THR) entities listed on this document understand that the medical information that is recorded about you and your health is personal. The confidentiality of your health information is also protected under both state and federal law.

This Notice of Privacy Practices describes how medical entities may use and disclose your information and the rights that you have regarding your health information. The Notice applies to all of our healthcare facilities (both inpatient and outpatient). It also applies to physicians and allied health professionals with staff privileges at the facilities,* for hospital-based episodes of care conducted in cooperation with Belltech facilities.

Your Health Information Rights
Although your health information is the physical property of the facility or practitioner that compiled it, the information belongs to you, and you have certain rights over that information. You have the right to:

* Request, in writing, a restriction on certain uses and disclosures of your health information. However, agreement with the request is not required by law, such as when it is determined that compliance with the restriction cannot be guaranteed;
* Inspect or obtain a copy of your health record as provided by law;
* Request, in writing, that your health record be amended as provided by law, if you feel the health information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete. You will be notified if the request cannot be granted;
* Request that we communicate with you about your health information in a specific way or at a specific location. Reasonable requests will be accommodated;
* Obtain an accounting of disclosures of your health information as provided by law;
* Obtain a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices on request.

You may exercise these rights by directing a request to the Privacy Contact listed on this Notice.