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Ask well-nigh Financial Assistance Find a Phone Number / Contact Patient Visit A Patient / View Visiting Hours Find Directions/Maps Access My Medical Records Make an Appointment Refill My Prescription LearnWell-nighOur Centers ofSuperintendencyThank a Staff Member or Physician Volunteer PatientSnoutof Rights Home / Patients & Visitors / PatientSnoutof Rights PatientSnoutof Rights As a patient in a hospital in New York State, you have the right, resulting with law, to: Understand and use these rights. If for any reason you do not understand or you need help, the hospital MUST provide assistance, including an interpreter. Receive treatment without favoritism as to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or source of payment. Receive considerate and respectful superintendency in a wipe and unscratched environment self-ruling of unnecessary restraints. Receive emergency superintendency if you need it. Be informed of the name and position of the doctor who will be in tuition of your superintendency in the hospital. Know the names, positions and functions of any hospital staff involved in your superintendency and refuse their treatment, viewing or observation. A no smoking room. Receive well-constructed information well-nigh your diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Receive all the information that you need to requite informed consent for any proposed procedure or treatment. This information shall include the possible risks and benefits of the procedure or treatment. Receive all the information you need to requite informed consent for an order not to resuscitate. You moreover have the right to designate an individual to requite this consent for you if you are too ill to do so. If you would like spare information, please ask for a reprinting of the pamphlet ‘Do Not Resuscitate Orders – a Guide for Patients and Families.’ Refuse treatment and be told what effect this may have on your health. Refuse to take part in research. In deciding whether or not to participate, you have the right to a full explanation. Privacy while in the hospital and confidentiality of all information and records regarding your care. Participate in all decisions well-nigh your treatment and venting from the hospital. The hospital must provide you with a written venting plan and written unravelment of how you can request your discharge. Review your medical record without charge. Obtain a reprinting of your medical record for which the hospital can tuition a reasonable fee. You cannot be denied a reprinting solely considering you cannot sire to pay. Receive an itemized snout and subtitle of all charges.Mutterwithout fear of reprisals well-nigh the superintendency and services you are receiving, and to have the hospital respond to you and if you request it, a written response. If you are not satisfied with the hospital’s response, you can mutter to the New York State Health Department. The hospital must provide you with the Health Department telephone number. Authorize those family members and other adults who will be given priority to visit resulting with your worthiness to receive visitors. Make known your wishes in regard to corporeal gifts. You may document your wishes in your health superintendency proxy or on a donor card, misogynist from the hospital. If you have any questions, please contact jeisele@numc.edu ParentsSnoutof Rights ParentsSnoutof Rights Patient Responsibilities The Nassau University Medical Center recognizes the primary role its patients play with regard to their care, their safety and the safety of others, and the safeguarding of the rights of other patients and staff. A snout of patient responsibilities describing this role is set along unelevated in the interest of promoting a safe, well-appointed environment in which the weightier possible superintendency may be rendered. NUMC patients shall be responsible: To provide, to the weightier of his/her knowledge, well-judged and well-constructed information well-nigh present complaints, past illnesses, hospitalizations, medication and other matters relating to his/her health. To report unexpected changes in his/her condition to the responsible practitioner as soon as possible. To make it known whether he/she understands a contemplated undertow of whoopee and what is expected of him/her. For pursuit to the weightier of his/her worthiness the plan for medical superintendency as recommended by the physician primarily responsible for his/her care. To alimony appointments and when unable to do so, to notify the hospital with sufficient time to reschedule. For his/her deportment if he/she refuses treatment or does not follow the practitioner’s instructions. For assuring that the financial obligations of his/her health superintendency are fulfilled as promptly as possible. For pursuit hospital rules and regulations regarding patient superintendency and conduct. For profitable in the tenancy of noise and the number of visitors. To comply with the No Smoking Policy as posted and squire Medical Center staff in their efforts to provide a smoke-free environment for all. For stuff respectful of the property of other persons and of the hospital. 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