Patient Rights and Responsibilities

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Grady Memorial Hospital supports the rights of each patient through organizational policies and
procedures which define the mechanisms through which the rights are protected and exercised.
The Hospital will provide a reasonable response to each patient's request for and need of
treatment and services within the Hospital's capacity to deliver such services in accordance with
our stated mission and within applicable law and regulations. The Hospital's concern with and
respect for individual patient rights is briefly outlined below:

Patients shall have impartial access to treatment or accommodations that are available or
medically indicated, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, condition of illness
or handicap or sources of payment for care.

Patients have the right to considerate, respectful care under all circumstances and may express
spiritual beliefs and cultural practices that do no harm to others or interfere with the planned
course of medical therapy.

Patients have a right to express their desires concerning treatment of terminal illness through
Oklahoma Rights of the Terminally Ill or Persistently Unconscious Act ("Rights Act"). Patients
have the right to treatment which optimizes the comfort and dignity of the patient through: treating
primary and secondary symptoms that respond to treatment as desired by the patient or his/her
surrogate decision maker; appropriately and aggressively managing pain; and acknowledgment
of the psychosocial and spiritual concerns of the patient and family regarding dying and the
expression of grief.

Patients have the right, within the law, to personal and informational privacy as manifested by
the following rights and as further defined in our Notice of Privacy Practices as posted
throughout the Hospital:

1. To refuse to talk with or see anyone not officially connected with the Hospital or not directly
involved in his/her care.

2. To wear appropriate personal clothing and religious or other symbolic items, as long as they
do not interfere with diagnostic procedures or treatment.

3. To be interviewed and examined in surroundings that assures personal privacy. This includes
the right to have a person of one's own sex present during a physical examination, treatment or
procedure performed by a health professional of the opposite sex, and not to remain disrobed
longer than necessary.

4. To expect that any communication involving his/her care will be conducted discreetly and will
exclude individuals not directly involved in the plan of care unless the patient gives permission.

5. To have his/her medical record read only by individuals directly involved in the plan of care,
or the monitoring of its quality, or payor representatives, as required under state or federal
programs, and by other individuals only when the patient or a legally authorized representative
has given written permission.

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