If you have any questions about this notice, please contact our Privacy Officer at the address below. We understand that medical information about you and your health is personal. Protecting medical information about you is important. We create a record of the care and services you receive. We need this record to provide you with quality care and to comply with certain legal requirements.
This notice applies to all of the records of your care generated by Golden Valley Health Centers, whether made by health care professionals or other personnel. This notice will tell you about the ways in which we may use and disclose medical information about you. We also describe your rights and certain obligations we have regarding the use and disclosure of medical information.
The following categories describe different ways that we may use and disclose medical information. For each category of uses or disclosures we will try to give some examples. Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed. However, all of the ways we are permitted to use and disclose information will fall within one of the following categories:. We may use medical information about you to provide you with medical treatment or services. We may disclose medical information about you to doctors, nurses, technicians, training doctors, or other health care professionals who are involved in taking care of you.
For example, a doctor treating you for a broken leg may need to know if you have diabetes because diabetes may slow the healing process. In addition, the doctor may need to tell the dietitian if you have diabetes so that we can arrange for appropriate meals.
Different health care professionals also may share medical information about you in order to coordinate the different care you need, such as prescriptions, lab work and x-rays. We also may disclose medical information about you to people outside the health center who may be involved in your medical care after you leave the health center or that provide services that are part of your care.
