Your Treatment Rights
- To have your family included to learn about your mental illness, and to participate in and to have a periodic review of your treatment, especially in decisions about discharge and/or aftercare planning.
- To receive the appropriate level of care in the least restrictive setting, after an informed consent is signed.
- To know the nature and type of treatment options and services that might benefit you and to receive information about Ridgeview’s clinical practice guidelines and services in understandable/effective communication.
- To request the opinion of a consultant, at your expense.
- To refuse treatment/therapeutic activity and know what might happen without treatment, except in the case of an emergency or court order.
- To have competent professional staff and to choose or refuse providers within the network.
- To get a list and be informed of risks, benefits, side effects of medication and treatment procedures, and unanticipated outcomes of treatment/service.
- To refuse to participate in research projects or experimental medication/treatment without compromising your rights to service.
- To refuse the use of audio and/or visual techniques to record or observe activities during treatment unless written and signed consent is given. You may change your decision at any time.
- To have pain assessed and managed appropriately.
- To be notified of discharge rights and how to appeal clinical or administrative decisions.
- To refuse to participate in surveys/outcome measures.
- To be consulted about the types of mental health care you receive if you become sick: Declaration for Mental Health, Advance Directives, and Health Care Power of Attorney.
- To confidential and secure records, unless court ordered, otherwise permitted to be viewed by law, you give consent for them to be shared, or there is an emergency.
- To inspect and receive a copy of your record, at your own expense, unless this would be harmful to you.
- To ask for a correction of your record if you feel mistakes have been made. You also may place a statement in your record about what you think the error may be.