NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
POLICY AND PROCEDURES
PURPOSE: To describe Good Shepherd Lutheran Services’s efforts to comply with the
Privacy Rule’s requirements related
to the Notice of Privacy Practices.
POLICY: Good Shepherd Lutheran Services provides and
uses its Notice of Privacy Practices
in
accordance with Privacy Rule Requirements.
PROCEDURE:
1. The Notice of Privacy
Practices is written in plain language and its content is in accordance
with Privacy Rule requirements.
2. The Notice of Privacy
Practices describes Good Shepherd Lutherans Services’s
uses and
disclosures of Protected Health
Information (PHI) and residents’ rights with respect to
their health information.
3. Residents are provided with
a copy of Good Shepherd Lutheran Services’s Notice of
Privacy
Practices as soon as
practicable upon admission.
4. A good faith effort is made
to obtain written acknowledgement that the resident has received
a copy of the Notice of
Privacy Practices.
5. Workforce members receive
training related to Good Shepherd Lutheran Services’s
privacy
practices as detailed in the Notice
of Privacy Practices.
6. The Notice of Privacy
Practices is revised whenever there are changes to federal or state
privacy laws and regulations or to
Good Shepherd Lutheran Services’s privacy practices.
Revisions to the notice will not be implemented
prior to the effective date of the revised
notice and distribution of the
revised notice to workforce members, residents and business
associates.
7. A copy of the Notice of
Privacy Practices is retained for six years from the date it was last in
Effect.
Effective Date: April 14, 2003
Approved
by:
Date
Approved:
Section: Policy and Procedures