Patient Rights and Responsibilities

At Floyd Valley Healthcare, we are committed to following sound medical and ethical principles. As such, we recognize your rights as a patient.

View Floyd Valley Healthcare’s full patient rights and responsibilities as well as the privacy policy here: 

Respectful Care

You have the right to be treated with dignity, concern and respect. You have the right to care that considers the social, spiritual and cultural matters that have an effect on your illness. You will be treated with respect regardless of your age, race, ethnicity, national origin, culture, color, religion, language, physical and/or mental status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or your ability to pay. 

Complete Information

You have the right to and are encouraged to obtain from your doctor complete and current information about your diagnosis, treatment and treatment outcomes in words you can understand. You have the right to know the names and roles of the professionals taking care of you. You have the right to know when something goes wrong with your care. 

Care Decisions

You have the right to participate in making decisions about the medical care you receive. Others may be included in care decisions, but you have the right to agree to or refuse treatment as permitted by law and hospital policy and to know the risks and benefits of your actions. If you refuse a suggested treatment, you will receive other care and services as needed. The hospital will make every attempt to provide you with care based on the seriousness of your illness and the hospital’s ability to treat you. You can expect to be told about care alternatives when hospital care is no longer appropriate. When medically proper and legally permitted, or upon your request, you may be transferred to another facility. Upon your request, you have the right to have a family member or representative and your own doctor notified promptly on your admission to the hospital.

Restraints

You have the right to be treated in the least restricting way that preserves your safety and that of other patients and staff. This means that you will be free from physical restraints and excessive medications unless necessary for the protection of your health or safety.

Pain Management

You have the right to receive information about pain and pain relief measures. You can expect staff commitment to pain management and health professionals who respond to your reports of pain. You can expect that your reports of pain will be believed and that pain management will be provided. 

Advance Directive

You have the right to have an advance directive such as a living will, healthcare proxy or durable power of attorney for healthcare. You have the right to have hospital staff and other healthcare providers in the hospital act in accordance with these directives. These documents state your wishes about treatment or name someone to decide for you if you are unable to so do. 

Patient Needs

Privacy: You have the right to every consideration of privacy. All parts of your medical care, examination and treatment will be conducted so as to protect your privacy.

Confidentiality: You have the right to expect that all communications and records related to your care will be treated as confidential by the hospital, except when reporting is permitted or required by law.

Security: You have the right to have all care and treatments provided to you in a safe and secure area, free from neglect and abuse.

Communication: You have the right to expect unrestricted access to communication. When it is necessary to restrict visitors, mail, telephone calls or other forms of communication as a part of your care, you have the right to be included in any such decision. You have the right to expect any communication to be given in a language you can understand.

Review Records

You have the right to review the records related to your medical care and to have the information explained or interpreted as necessary, except when restricted by law. You have the right to access this information within a reasonable time frame. You have the right to request amendments or corrections to your medical record.

Business Relationships

You have the right to ask about, and be informed of, the existence of business relationships among the hospital, educational institutions, or other healthcare providers or payers that may influence your treatment and care.

Research Treatment

You have the right to know about research or experimental treatment that your doctor may make available. You have the right to consent to or refuse to participate in proposed research studies or experimental care. 

Hospital Policies

You have the right to be informed of hospital policies and practices that relate to patient care treatment and responsibilities. You have the right to be informed of available resources for resolving problems or questions about quality of care, such as ethics committees or patient representatives. You have the right to expect a timely response to your problem or question. You have a right to be informed of the hospital’s charges for services and available payment methods.

Visitation

You (or support person) have the right, subject to your consent, to receive the visitors you designate, including but not limited to a spouse, a domestic partner (including a same-sex domestic partner), another family member or a friend; and you have the right to withdraw or deny such consent at any time. Visitation privileges will not be restricted, limited, or otherwise denied based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability. Some patient care units may have clinically necessary or reasonable restriction of visitation because of patient’s condition. You will be advised of specific visitation policies upon arrival to the patient care unit, if applicable.