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Patient
Rights & Responsibilities
As a
patient, you have a number of rights and
responsibilities related to your care and treatment.
In the case of child and adolescent patients - or
those unable to make competent decisions - these
policies apply to the responsible party. Extended Care
Facility residents are also provided a copy of the
Federal and State-Mandated "Resident Rights." A complete
listing of Patient Rights and Responsibilities is
available upon request.
Download
2007 Patient Guide
PDF
Click Here
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At Morrow County Hospital,
Patients have the right to:
- Considerate and respectful care with reasonable access
- The
same quality of care and accommodations regardless of your
race, creed, sex, national origin, or sources of payment.
- You have the right to
receive complete information about your diagnosis,
treatment, and expected outcome including informed
consent.
- Have their individual,
social, psychological, cultural, emotional and spiritual
needs respected and preserved while undergoing treatment.
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be free from mental, physical,
sexual and verbal abuse, neglect and exploitation.
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receive complete information from their
physician regarding their diagnosis, treatment and prognosis
or expected outcome. This includes the right to
informed consent when surgical or other significant
procedures are involved. -
know by name and position the person caring
for them and to ask if the hospital or caregivers have
relationships with outside parties that may influence their
care. -
actively participate in the plan of care and
decision-making regarding their care through direct
discussion with physicians and healthcare professionals. -
the treatment of pain during all aspects of
care by concerned staff.
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receive information about pain and pain
relief measures. -
(if terminally ill) to treatment of their
condition and symptoms including the optimum care and
comfort, control of pain and considerate care to the patient
and their family. -
execute Advance Directives (Living Wills,
Healthcare Power of Attorney documents) and to designate a
surrogate decision maker on their behalf or to execute a
State Certified Do Not Resuscitate In compliance with Ohio
law. -
care which is not conditioned on the
existence of an advance directive.
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keep their information pertaining to their
care confidential. Patients have the right to expect
their medical records to be maintained confidentially unless
they have given permission to release their records or it is
required reporting permitted by law.
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receive assistance with communication
limitations. The hospital will make every reasonable attempt
to provide this assistance.
Patient Responsibilities
- You have the
responsibility to provide to the best of your knowledge,
accurate and complete information about present
complaints, past illnesses, hospitalizations, medications,
advance directives, and other matters relating to your
health history.
- You have the
responsibility to report unexpected changes in your
condition or pain to the physician or to the healthcare
staff responsible for your care.
- You have the
responsibility to cooperate with your physicians and staff
in their diagnosis and treatment and to question if you do
not clearly understand a course of action or what is
expected of you.
- You have the
responsibility to inform your physicians and other
caregivers if you cannot follow prescribed treatment, and
the responsibility for your actions if you refuse
treatment
- You have the
responsibility to be considerate of other patients and
staff by following the hospital's policies regarding
smoking and telephone usage.
- You have the
responsibility to provide all needed information for
insurance processing and to meet financial obligations for
your healthcare.
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