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PATIENT BILL OF RIGHTS

It is our desire to provide the residents of Hazard and the surrounding communities with the finest medical care available.  Our ultimate purpose in this practice is to help our patients.  We feel the best patient-provider relationship is a result of mutual regard, communication and understanding.  In our endeavor to strengthen this relationship, we have adhere to the Patients's Bill of Rights.

1. Patients will be treated with dignity, respect and consideration.
2. Patients will be provided with a safe environment and appropriate privacy and confidentiality of care.
3. Patients shall be accorded impartial access to treatment and prognosis.
4. Patients or legally authorized guardians will be provided, to the degree known, complete information concerning their diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.
5. Patients will be given the opportunity to participate in decisions involving their healthcare, unless contraindicated for medical reasons.
6. Patients have the right to expect the clinic to give necessary care to the best of its ability and refer or transfer to appropriate personnel and institutions when necessary.
7. .Patients will have access to information concerning patient rights, responsibilities, available services, fees for services, payment policies, and provision for emergency care.