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VNA Health at Home, Inc.
27 Siemon Company Drive
Watertown, CT 06795
PATIENT PRIVACY PROTECTION POLICY
In compliance with the law and VNA Health
At Home, Inc.’s commitment to its patients, it is the policy of
VNA Health At Home, Inc., Inc. to protect its patients’ privacy.
VNA Health At Home, Inc., Inc. will take
reasonable steps, in accordance with the law to:
1)
Protect the confidentiality of Social Security numbers
and nonpublic personal and medical information;
2)
Prohibit unlawful disclosure of Social Security numbers
and nonpublic personal and medical information; and
3)
Limit access to Social Security numbers and nonpublic
personal and medical information.
VNA Health At Home, Inc. will not
authorize or condone the disclosure of any nonpublic personal
information or medical information about our patients or former
patients, except as permitted or required by law, or as
authorized by our patients. Although complete security cannot
be guaranteed, VNA Health At Home, Inc. has implemented
procedures to minimize the risk of access or disclosure of
nonpublic personal and medical information. Nonpublic personal
and medical information includes,
any personally identifiable
information relating to a patient’s physical or mental
condition, medical history or medical treatment, including
names, addresses, photos, diagnoses, Social Security and other
identification, registration, and account numbers, and any other
nonpublic identifiable information that can be traced back to a
patient. It includes all claims and financial information on a
patient, whether such information is maintained in written, oral
or electronic form.
VNA Health At Home, Inc. has updated its
policies to restrict access to nonpublic personal and medical
information to those employees who need to know that information
in order to provide services to our patients as well as to train
its employees to protect the privacy of our patients. VNA
Health At Home, Inc. maintains physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards that comply with federal and state law to
guard our patients’ nonpublic personal information.
VNA Health At Home, Inc. will destroy,
erase or make unreadable nonpublic personal and medical
information prior to disposal, in accordance with the retention
obligation of Connecticut and Federal law, governing agencies or
third party payors. VNA Health At Home, Inc. may contract with
a business that disposes of confidential patient information.
VNA
Health At Home, Inc. will take disciplinary and other measures
for noncompliance with the policy. All complaints will be
investigated and VNA Health At Home, Inc. will take appropriate
action where such action violates the law of VNA policy.
Please contact
AnnMarie Garrison, Executive Director and Privacy Officer, at
860-274-7531, ext. 113, if you have any questions or to report a
possible violation. |
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