text: HIPAA Information | Town of Standish ME
  Town of Standish Fire/EMS
  As an essential part of our commitment to you, Standish Fire/EMS maintains the privacy of certain confidential health care information about you, known as Protected Health Information or PHI. We are required by law to protect your health care information and to provide you with the Notice of Privacy Practices.
  The Notice outlines our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your PHI. It not only describes our privacy practices and your legal rights, but lets you know, among other things, how we are permitted to use and disclose PHI about you, how you can access and copy that information, how you may request amendment of that information, and how you may request restrictions on our use and disclosure of your PHI.
  Purpose of this Notice: Standish Fire/EMS is required by law to maintain the privacy of certain confidential health care information, known as Protected Health Information or PHI, and to provide you with a notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your PHI. This Notice describes your legal rights, advises you of our privacy practices, and lets you know how Standish Fire/EMS is permitted to use and disclose PHI about you.
  Standish Fire/EMS is also required to abide by the terms of the version of this Notice currently in effect. In most situations we may use this information as described in this Notice without your permission, but there are some situations where we may use it only after we obtain your written authorization, if we are required by law to do so.
  Uses and Disclosures of PHI: Standish Fire/EMS may use PHI for the purposes of treatment, payment, and health care operations, in most cases without your written permission. Examples of our use of your PHI:
  Reminders for Scheduled Transports and Information on Other Services: We may also contact you to provide you with a reminder of any scheduled appointments for non-emergency ambulance and medical transportation, or for other information about alternative services we provide or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.
  Use and Disclosure of PHI Without Your Authorization: Standish Fire/EMS is permitted to use PHI without your written authorization, or opportunity to object in certain situations, including:
  For Standish Fire/EMS's use in treating you or in obtaining payment for services provided to you or in other health care operations;
  The right to access, copy, or inspect your PHI. This means you may come to our offices and inspect and copy most of the medical information about you that we maintain. We will normally provide you with access to this information within 30 days of your request. We may also charge you a reasonable fee for you to copy any medical information that you have the right to access. In limited circumstances, we may deny you access to your medical information, and you may appeal certain types of denials.
  The right to request that we restrict the uses and disclosures of your PHI. You have the right to request that we restrict how we use and disclose your medical information that we have about you for treatment, payment or health care operations, or to restrict the information that is provided to family, friends and other individuals involved in your health care. But if you request a restriction and the information you asked us to restrict is needed to provide you with emergency treatment, then we may use the PHI or disclose the PHI to a health care provider to provide you with emergency treatment. Standish Fire/EMS is not required to agree to any restrictions you request, but any restrictions agreed to by Standish Fire/EMS are binding on Standish Fire/EMS.
  Internet, Electronic Mail, and the Right to Obtain Copy of Paper Notice on Request. If we maintain a website, we will prominently post a copy of this Notice on our website and make the Notice available electronically through the website. If you allow us, we will forward you this Notice by email instead of on paper and you may always request a paper copy of the Notice.
  Revisions to the Notice: Standish Fire/EMS reserves the right to change the terms of this Notice at any time, and the changes will be effective immediately and will apply to all protected health information that we maintain. Any material changes to the Notice will be promptly posted in our facilities and posted to our web site, if we maintain one. You can get a copy of the latest version of this Notice by contacting the Privacy Officer identified below.
  Chief Rob Caron
  Phone: (207) 642-4343 or Fax: (207) 642-8213
  Click here to view or print the Standish Fire/EMS Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Privacy Practices.