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HEALTH CARE INFORMATION
PRIVACY PRACTICES POLICIES
Silver Gardens' understands and complies with confidentiality requirements.
Any health information we maintain about Residents' particular health status is covered by this policy.
This policy statement covers procedures for disclosure, and it describes how we use Resident health information. At Silver Gardens we have internal needs for Resident health information, and, from time to time, we must review it with collateral health care providers. Here are the policies on disclosure:
HIPAA and Confidentiality at Silver Gardens
1. Privacy Practice Act – HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) governs confidentiality issues involving Residents and employees. This regulation includes communications and transactions involving Resident and employee Private Health Information (PHI). Penalties and sanctions for violations under HIPAA vary from facility deficiencies or financial penalties to employee imprisonment.
Confidentiality does not mean ignoring someone else's on-the-job illegal, unethical or prohibited conduct. To the contrary, such adverse at-work conduct should be reported to either of Silver Gardens' General Partners. Confidentiality in this setting means employees do not share Resident information, inappropriately obtained, for business or personal purposes with others who have no need for confidential health information.
All Silver Gardens' staff are required to individually sign a STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY as a prior condition of employment. Any employee who improperly uses or discloses confidential business or personal information (related to Silver Gardens, its Residents and clients, and/or employees) will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment and legal action, even if he or she did not actually benefit from the disclosed information
2. Confidentiality Statement
Staff are required to sign the following contractual statement prior to hiring:
As a condition of hiring and employment, I have been formally instructed in maintaining the full confidentiality of all medical and personal information about Residents residing at Assisted Living at Silver Gardens, LLC.
I have been advised, except as needed to conduct daily business, any Residents' medical/personal health information may not be discussed with anyone either inside or outside the residential care home. All medical and personal information is limited to the family members/guardian/responsible agent of the Resident.
Complaints, Contact Person, Effective Date, and Acknowledgement Questions and inquiries are encouraged, in an effort to resolve issues before they become problems. If there are complaints or grievances about potential violations of privacy rights, please make them to the General Partners or to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. While questions and early problem-solving are encouraged, there will be no retaliation for filing a complaint. Complaints may be filed with Silver Gardens by writing to a General Partner. If desired, a complaint may be forwarded to the Secretary of Health and Human Services by writing to:
All staff are required to read and sign the following two agreements prior to and as conditions of hiring. These statements represent a limited baseline on the issue of Resident confidentiality. As the organization grows, these policies will elaborate to meet increasingly complex needs.
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie.
Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as ot
her sites on the internet.
To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following url http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google's own privacy policies.
Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, Assisted Living At Silver Gardens has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers.
Collection of Personal Information
When visiting www.silvergardensal.com, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is purely used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Links to third party Websites
We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.
If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of Assisted Living At Silver Gardens then you may contact us at info@silvergardens.com
This notice was effective July 30, 2007; it was updated February 14, 2011
