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Facility Directories

  • Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit a hospital to inform callers or visitors of a patient’s location and general condition in the emergency room, even if the patient’s information would not normally be included in the main hospital directory of admitted patients?
  • Can health care information be shared in a severe disaster?
  • Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule permit hospitals and other health care facilities to inform visitors or callers about a patient’s location in the facility and general condition?
  • Can the phone number of a patient’s room be released as part of the facility directory?
  • Are hospitals able to inform the clergy about parishioners in the hospital?
  • Can the fact that a patient has been "treated and released," or that a patient has died, be released as part of the facility directory?

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  • Facility Directories
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  • Right to File a Complaint
  • Right to Request a Restriction
  • Right to an Accounting of Disclosures
  • Treatment, Payment, and Health Care Operations Disclosures
  • Privacy Rule
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