PATIENT INFO: Patient Rights
As a patient of North Seattle Surgery Center, you have the right to:
- Receive considerate and respectful care.
- Obtain complete and current information about your diagnosis, treatment and prognosis from your physician.
- Receive the information you need to give informed consent before any procedure or treatment.
- Refuse treatment to the extent permitted by the law, and to be informed of the medical consequences of such action.
- Be free from seclusion or restraints of any kind that are not medically necessary.
- Expect every consideration of your privacy concerning your own medical care program.
- Have a family member and your physician notified of your admission.
- Expect that all communications and records pertaining to your care will be treated as confidential; you have the right to review your own medical record and have access to information contained in your record in a reasonable time frame and at a reasonable price.
- Expect that the North Seattle Surgery Center will make reasonable response to your request for services.
- Be involved in making care decisions, including managing pain effectively.
- Obtain information as to any relationship of the N.S.S.C.to other health care and educational institutions insofar as your care is concerned.
- Give or withhold consent to participate in research projects or procedures.
- Expect reasonable continuity of care.
- Examine and receive an explanation of your bill, regardless of the source of payment.
- Know what N.S.S.C. rules and regulations apply to your conduct as a patient.
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