At Mission Hospital we honor your rights as a patient.  You have the right to the following:

1. Considerate and respectful care, and to be made comfortable.  You have the right to respect from all of us for your personal values and beliefs.
2. Make decisions regarding medical care, and receiving as much information about any proposed treatment or procedure as you may need in order to give informed consent or to refuse a course of treatment.  Except in emergencies, this information shall include a description of the procedure or treatment, the medically significant risks involved, alternative courses of treatment or non-treatment and the risks involved in each, and the name of the person who will carry out the procedure or treatment.
3. Receive information about your health status, course of treatment and prospects for recovery in terms that you can understand.  You have the right to participate in the development and implementation of your plan of care.  You have the right to participate in ethical questions that arise in the course of your care, including issues of conflict resolution and withholding resuscitative services.
4. Know the name of the physician who has primary responsibility for coordinating your care and the names and professional relationships of other physicians and non-physicians who will see you.
5. Be advised if the hospital/personal physician proposes to engage in or perform human experimentation affecting your care or treatment.  You have the right to refuse or participate in such research projects.
6. Have personal privacy respected.  Case discussion, consultation, examination and treatment are confidential and should be conducted discreetly.
7. Confidential treatment of all communications and records pertaining to your care and stay in the hospital.  Basic information may be released to the public, unless specifically prohibited in writing by you.  Written permission shall be obtained before medical records are made available to anyone not directly concerned with your care, except as otherwise may be required or permitted by law.
8. Reasonable continuity of care and to know in advance the time and location of appointments as well as the identity of the person providing the care.
9. Be informed by the physician, or a delegate of the physician, of continuing health care requirements following discharge from the hospital.
10. Examine and receive an explanation of the hospital’s bill regardless of the source of payment.
11. Exercise these rights regardless of your gender, economic status, educational background, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation or marital status, or the source of the payment of care