Privacy Notice

Houston Hospice is legally required to protect the privacy of your health information. This information is called ‘protected health information.’ Protected health information, or PHI, is information that can be used to identify you that we have either received or created, and relates to:

• Your past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition
• The provision of health care to you, or
• The past, present, or future payment for your health care

Houston Hospice is committed to protecting medical information about you. We are legally required to:

• Maintain the privacy of your protected health information
• Provide you or your legal representative with this notice about our privacy practices
• Follow the privacy practices described in this notice

Houston Hospice reserves the right to change the terms of this Notice. The new notice will be effective for all protected health information that we process at that time and that we receive in the future. The current ‘Privacy Notice’ will be posted prominently in our offices and on our web page. We will provide you or your legal representative with a copy upon request made to the Privacy Officer (713-467-7423).

This document below explains how, when and why we use and disclose your PHI.

Privacy Notice