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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) guarantees certain privacy rights regarding your personal medical/health information. You may learn more about HIPAA by visiting the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights web site at www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa.
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL/HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU OR ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL FOR WHOM YOU ARE AN AUTHORIZED PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GAIN ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
Weems Community Mental Health Center and the Mississippi Department of Mental Health are dedicated to protecting your medical information.
Weems Community Mental Health Center (WCMHC) is required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information and to provide you with this Notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to protected health information. WCMHC collects health information from you and stores it in a chart or file and on a computer. This is your health record. The health record is the property of WCMHC, but the information in the record belongs to you. If you have questions about any part of this Notice or if you want more information about the privacy practices at WCMHC, please contact:
Weems Community Mental Health Center
ATTN: Security/Privacy Officer
P. O. Box 4378, Meridian, MS 39304
Phone number: 601-483-4821
Effective Date of this Notice: April 14, 2003
Weems Community Mental Health Center is required to abide by the terms of the Notice currently in effect.
Changes to the Notice: Weems Community Mental Health Center reserves the right to change the terms of this Notice and to make the new Notice provisions effective for all protected health information that we maintain. If WCMHC makes a material change in this Notice, we will post the revised Notice at the center and will make a copy of the revised Notice available to you upon request.
Personal information (i.e. e-mail addresses, personal inquiries) collected on this web site is not shared with any other entity or web site.
Copyright © 2004 Weems Community Mental Health Center
